GammaVision formats
| GSI Biophysics | command subsystem |
The GammaVision acquisition system (PDF) apparently exports one-dimensional histograms in two formats, "TXT" or "SPE".

"TXT" format

ACQUISITION INFORMATION

Detector ID:  <Id>
Real Time:  <seconds>
Live Time:  <seconds>
Acquisition start date:  <ddmmyyyy>
Acquisition start time:  <hh:mm:ss>
Starting channel number:   <lower limit>
Number of channels:   <nchannel>

CALIBRATION INFORMATION

ENERGY CALIBRATION
Units: <unit>
Energy Fit:  <offset> <slope> <quadratic>
FWHM Fit:  <f0> <f1> <f2>
Efficiency Terms:  <c0> <c1> <c2> <c3> <c4>
  <c5> <c6> <c7> <c8> <c9>

SPECTRUM
<data line 1>
...
<data line n>
Data lines contain freely formatted numbers, separated by blanks or commas.
The recommended (not mandatory) file name extension is .txt. An example is here

"SPE" format

$SPEC_ID:
<description>
$SPEC_REM:
<remark1>
<remark2>
...
<remarkn>
$DATE_MEA:
<mm/dd/yyyy> <hh:mm:ss>
$MEAS_TIM:
<live seconds> <real seconds>
$DATA:
<lower channel number> <upper channel number>
<data line 1>
...
<data line n>
$ROI:
<nroi>
<lower channel number ROI 1> <upper channel number ROI 1>
...
<lower channel number ROI n> <upper channel number ROI n>
$PRESETS:
...
$ENER_FIT:
<offset> <slope> <quadratic>
$MCA_CAL:
<ncoeff>
<c0> <c1> ... <cn-1>
$SHAPE_CAL:
<ncoeff>
<c0> <c1> ... <cn-1>
Data lines contain freely formatted numbers, separated by blanks or commas.
The recommended (not mandatory) file name extension is .spe. An example is here
| GSI Biophysics | command subsystem |
Last updated: M.Kraemer@gsi.de, 2-Nov-2005

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