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- GATE 6.0.0 is now released!
Beginning of February:
GATE V6, supporting simulations of radiotherapy and hadrontherapy...
[more]- GATE workshop at the IEEE MIC 2009 in Orlando
The OpenGATE collaboration has recently organized a GATE workshop during the IEEE MIC 2009...
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- GATE 6.0.0 is now released!
Beginning of February:
GATE V6, supporting simulations of radiotherapy and hadrontherapy...
[more]
History
The origin of GATE can be traced back to a workshop organized by Irène Buvat in July 2001 in Paris and attended by several research groups sharing a common interest in Monte Carlo simulations. Its focus was on the future of Monte Carlo simulations in nuclear medicine. The drawbacks and limitations of the dedicated and general purpose codes were discussed. From these discussions, it became clear that it would be to everyones advantage to develop a simulation toolkit that would offer a dedicated Monte Carlo platform for emission tomography able to model decay kinetics, deadtime, and movement, while benefiting from the versatility and support of general-purpose simulation tools. Moreover, object-oriented technology appeared to be the best choice to ensure high modularity and reusability. Therefore, the consensus was to select the simulation toolkit developed in C++ by the Geant4 Collaboration, and to foster long-term support and maintenance by sharing this development among many research groups. This effort was launched in Lausanne, in first instance as an aid for the design of the ClearPET prototype developed by the Crystal Clear Collaboration.
Specifications of the Geant4-based simulation framework were circulated in December 2001. The C++ coding began at the Lausanne PET instrumentation group, with the help of the Geant4 Low Energy Electromagnetic Physics working group, of the Clermont-Ferrand corpuscular physics for life science group, and of the Ghent medical image and signal processing group. The development strategy was defined at a second workshop organised in January 2002 in Lausanne. On May 23rd 2002, at the first OpenGATE meeting in Lausanne, a live demonstration of the first version of the GATE platform was performed. At this occasion, the research groups at Lausanne, Clermont-Ferrand, and Ghent decided to start the OpenGATE Collaboration with the objective to improve, validate, document, and test GATE in view of the preparation of a public release of the software.