GATE Training on Medical Imaging (PET, SPECT, CT), Dosimetry and Radiation Therapy - Beginner Level - ENGLISH Course À distance

Day 1

• Introduction to the platform environment
• Description of a macro file and input files
• Visualization
• How to build the geometry of a camera, examples for PET, SPECT and CT systems
• How to manage medical data (simulation inputs)
• How to configure digitizer and detector response

Day 2

• How to handle the geometry of clinical beams in radiation therapy (examples using photons and ions)
• How to configure the physics lists
• How to configure cuts / thresholds
• How to handle output data (actors)

Day 3

• Tools for data analysis using Python
• Tools for distributed computing on clusters

If you work on American territory, we invite you to contact by email the course director Mrs. Lydia Maigne - lydia.maigne(at)clermont.in2p3.fr - who will organize a special session for American trainees on adapted time slots when a group is formed.

• Learn the usage of the GATE platform for medical physics
• Understand the features of the platform dedicated to the development of detection systems (PET, SPECT, CT and X-rays) and detector response, the management of medical images, the development of clinical and preclinical beams in radiation therapy and dose calculation for different radiation therapy treatments (internal or external)
• Be able to use new tools for data analysis using Python

• Training course in English
• Online training
• Lectures (5 h) and hands on (15 h)
• Practical course with 3 teachers for the group

Course materials and exercises corrected in PDF format as well as videos of the sessions will be given to participants.

EQUIPMENT: Participants will attend the training online through a dedicated web interface, they should attend the training with their laptop and connect to a dedicated GATE server through an ssh connection. Information for connection will be provided one week before the training. Sessions will be registered and provided remotely during 3 weeks after the training.

The training course is organized in partnership with the GATE collaboration.