GATE source code

GATE is distributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General  Public Licence (LGPL), version 3, 29 June 2007. See LICENSE.md for further details.  

Source code, examples and tools are available on GitHub: https://github.com/OpenGATE      

Below, you can download the major releases and get informed about the dependencies and major features.

GATE 9.1

Release Date: 13/04/2021

Required dependencies:

• geant4 10.7
• root ROOT 6 is recommended
• gcc 4.8 to 7.3 
• cmake minimal version 3.3 (with SSL support)

Optional dependencies:

• RTK 1.4
• lmf 3.0
• ECAT

New features are described HERE.

GATE 9.0

Release Date: 30/03/2020

Required dependencies:

• geant4 10.6
• root ROOT 6 is recommended
• gcc 4.8 to 7.3 (Note: with gcc 6.* and newer, ROOT 5 does not compile!)
• cmake minimal version 3.3 (with SSL support)

Optional dependencies:

• RTK 1.4
• lmf 3.0
• ECAT

Here is a list of new features:

Main new features
- MultiSystem and GateToTree (numpy output)
https://opengate.readthedocs.io/en/latest/data_output_management.html#ne...
https://github.com/OpenGATE/Gate/pull/289
- Compton Camera module
https://opengate.readthedocs.io/en/latest/compton_camera_imaging_simulat...
https://github.com/OpenGATE/Gate/pull/273
- Extended source
https://github.com/OpenGATE/GateContrib/tree/master/imaging/ExtendedVSource
https://github.com/OpenGATE/Gate/pull/271
- PhaseSpaceActor with npy output
https://github.com/OpenGATE/Gate/pull/242
- Read number of primaries per run in a file
https://github.com/OpenGATE/Gate/pull/233
- pytorch (ARF-NN and GAN phase-space)
https://opengate.readthedocs.io/en/latest/compilation_instructions.html#...
https://github.com/OpenGATE/GateContrib/tree/master/imaging/garf
https://github.com/OpenGATE/GateContrib/tree/master/dosimetry/gaga-phsp
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Bugs fixed
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- See the github "issues" section https://github.com/OpenGATE/Gate/issues
- PET debug Noise and DeadTime
- GateEnergySpectrumActor bug and options
- PhaseSpaceActor
- Enable coincidence sorting with generic repeater
- no more unmaintained GPU stuff
- etc ...

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GATE 8.2

Release Date: 15/02/2019

Required dependencies:

• geant4 10.5
• root ROOT 6 is recommended
• gcc 4.8 to 7.3 (Note: with gcc 6.* and newer, ROOT 5 does not compile!)
• cmake minimal version 3.3 (with SSL support)

Optional dependencies:

• RTK 1.4
• lmf 3.0
• ECAT

Here is a list of new features:

- New actor to compute muMap (PR 209)
- New actor Proton Nuclear Information (PR 206)
- New actor Neural Network based ARF for SPECT (PR 197)
- New actor multi material thermal (PR 195)
- New actor Neutron Track Length Estimator (NTLE)(PR 193)
- New actor X ray phase contrast (PR 170)

Also, several bug corrections and update have been made. Among them:
- adaptation to the new RTK 2.0 release (PR 221)
- solved random crash ((PR 222)
- time is stored in double rather than float in PhaseSpace (PR 205)
- optimization of VoxelizedMass (PR 199)
and several others ...

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