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  • A GATE-user workshop has been organized during the IEEE NSS-MIC 2011 meeting in Valencia, on Friday 28th October, Melia Hotel room 1-2-3 from 17:30 to 20:00. This workshop featured presentations by GATE users and updates on GATE recent and upcoming developments and validations by the members of the OpenGATE collaboration.

    Final Program:

    17:30-17:45 Introduction, status of the OpenGATE collaboration, overview of the workshop program, Irène Buvat, IMNC CNRS, Orsay, France

    17:45-18:15 Current functionalities of GATE V6, Sébastien Jan, CEA-SHFJ, Orsay, France

    18:15-18:30 Using GATE for helping in detector design: Virtual PET scanner. From simulation in GATE to a final multiring small animal Albira PET/SPECT/CT camera, Marcin Balcerzyk, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain

    18:30-18:45 Using GATE for CT simulations: Photon counting x-ray CT imaging using GATE: effects of energy window widths, Seung-Wan Lee, Yonsei University, Wounju, Gangwon, Korea

    18:45-19:00 Using GATE for radiotherapy applications : Validation of Dose Point Kernels generated by GATE based on homogeneous sphere phantom and variable dosel size, Panagiotis Papadimitroulas, University of Patras, Greece

    19:00-19:15 Using GATE for hadrontherapy applications : Validation of the hadronic models for PET monitoring of dose deposit in hadrontherapy, Charlotte Robert, IMNC CNRS, Orsay, France

    19:15-19:25 Upcoming functionalities in GATE, Sébastien Jan, Orsay, France

    19:15-19:25 What is new in GATE ?, Irène Buvat, Orsay, France

    19:30-20:00 Discussion and concluding remarks


  • GATE will be presented during the third International Workshop on Computational Phantoms for Radiation Protection, Imaging and Radiotherapy, on Tuesday 9th August, 2011. This presentation will focus on the functionalities of GATE to produce highly realistic images for radiation therapy and imaging applications.