[Stir-announce] STIR 5.1.0 release

[Thielemans, K. <k.t...@uc...>]

Dear all

You might have noticed that STIR 5.1.0 is out since a week. You can find a summary on Release v5.1.0 · UCL/STIR (github.com)<https://github.com/UCL/STIR/releases/tag/rel_5.1.0> which also points to the full release notes. However, main things to mention are the addition of pinhole SPECT capabilities (work by Matthew Strugari based on modelling by Carlés Falcón), speed-up of the listmode reconstruction (work mostly by Nikos Efthimiou) and further enabling of block-geometry scanners (mostly by Daniel Deidda). The conda release should be updated in a week or so. SIRF 3.4.0 (imminent release) supports the STIR 5.1.0 new functionality already, but still works with STIR 5.0.0.

It's a great step forward for STIR and our community, and I'd like to thank our various contributors again. Even small contributions make a big difference!

Next step is the merge of the TOF Pull Request<https://github.com/UCL/STIR/pull/304>. Please be patient a bit longer.
Enjoy
Kris Thielemans
Professor in Medical Imaging Physics at University College London,
Institute of Nuclear Medicine,
UCL Hospital Tower 5, 235 Euston Road, London NW1 2BU,  UK