Merge pull request #46 from faddegon/patch-7

Update phasespace.rst

parameters/source/phasespace.rst

@@ -133,6 +133,32 @@ While TOPAS can save the current TOPAS time to a phase space file, this time is
 A future version of TOPAS will provide more tools to synchronize and check playback time features.
 
 
+IAEA phase space files:
+
+The IAEA has a repository of phase space files generated by simulation of the treatment head of various models of linear accelerator treatment heads using different Monte Carlo systems. 
+Phase-space files uploaded to the IAEA repository before September, 2021 are known as legacy files. Files uploaded after September, 2021 are written in a revised format. 
+All files that conform to the revised IAEA specification can be read with TOPAS (version 3.7). 
+The link to the repository is https://www-nds.iaea.org/phsp/phsp.htmlx. 
+
+Most legacy phase-space files from the repository can be read with TOPAS.
+Some legacy files differ in format and require special handling.
+We call these malformed IAEA phase space files.
+A few legacy files are not read with TOPAS.
+The following table lists the legacy phase-space files from the repository that are not read by TOPAS.
+
+=============================================   ======================================================================================
+Phase-space file in IAEA repository 	         Reason the file is not read with TOPAS
+X-ray beams…                                    
+Elekta_Precise_25mv_part(1a-b,2a-b,3a-b,4a-b)	Number of scored particles listed in the header does not match the number of particles counted in the phase-space file
+Siemens_Primus_6mv_1.2x1.2	                     First Particle is not a new history
+Siemens_Primus_6mv_ 1x1 	                     First Particle is not a new history
+Varian_Clinac_600C_6MV_ 10x10	                  Number of scored particles listed in the header does not match the number of particles counted in the phase-space file
+Varian_TrueBeam6MV_(1,2,3,4,5,6)	               First Particle does not have the new history flag set
+Electron beams…
+Varian_Clinac_2100CD_6MeV_10x10	               Number of scored particles listed in the header does not match the number of particles counted in the phase-space file
+Varian_Clinac_2100CD_9MeV_10x10	               Number of scored particles listed in the header does not match the number of particles counted in the phase-space file
+===================================             ======================================
+
 Handling of Malformed IAEA phase space files:
 
 Some of the files in the IAEA phase space repository seem to me to be malformed.