The OpenGATE collaboration is happy to announce that the next GATE training session (3 full days) will be organized February 14-15-16, 2012, in Saclay, near Paris, France. All practical details (including list of hotels and transportation details) will be sent to you when you register. We will accept a limited number of attendees (16).
To download the registration form, please click here. Registration requests will be processed on "first come, first served" basis.
For any additional information, please contact the OpenGATE collaboration spokesperson.
Prerequisite
All attendees are supposed to have a good understanding of Unix or Linux OS as users.
Upon completion of the training, the trainee will know how to install and run the GATE Monte Carlo simulation software for modelling medical imaging acquisitions or radiotherapy experiments. He/she will be able to design and run a simulation involving a PET, SPECT, CT detector or a radiation therapy device, and to analyze the simulated data. The trainee will also know how to run GATE simulation on a cluster or grid architecture. Finally, he/she will be taught the mechanisms to be used to add new features of GATE.
The training will consist in lecturers by GATE experts and practical exercises.
Lectures will cover:
- The OpenGATE collaboration : introduction and short history
- Using GATE: basics and quick tour – status and installation
- What GATE can achieve: examples of applications
- Using GATE: setting up and running simulations, source description, analytical phantoms and voxelized phantoms, detector description, data output, digitizer and deadtime modelling, modelling radiation therapy experiments, dose scoring.
- Running GATE on a distributed architecture
- C++ developments in GATE
Practical exercises will include:
- Designing and launching a basic GATE simulation (1)
- Designing and launching a basic GATE simulation (2)
- Describing a source and detector in GATE
- PET, SPECT and CT applications
- Output results and analysis
- Digitizer settings
- Modelling a radiotherapy experiments in GATE
- Dose distribution analysis in GATE
- Running GATE on a cluster
- Introducing new features in GATE
- Geant4 and CLHEP installation
- ROOT installation
- GATE installation
- vGATE (virtual machine) installation
Practical details
When registering, we will be provided with a complete guide for transportation and hotel information. The training place is located about 20 km south of central Paris, and is easily reachable by public transportation (all practical details will be provided to you), in about 1 hour time (less if you choose a hotel in the South of Paris). Training will start at 9 am on Tuesday 12 February, 2012 and will end at 5 pm on Thursday 14.
We can also organize customized training at your place if the number of attendees is sufficient and if you can cover the cost of the training organization. Please contact the OpenGATE collaboration spokesperson for more details about this option.
