Gamma Vision V8 Users Manual
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- 1. INTRODUCTION
- 2. INSTALLING GAMMAVISION
- 2.1. Step 1: Installing Connections
- 2.2. Step 2: Installing GammaVision
- 2.3. Step 3: Establishing Communication With Your ORTEC MCBs
- 2.4. Caution: Running the MCB Configuration Program Can Affect Quality Assurance
- 2.5. Product Registration
- 2.6. Enabling Additional ORTEC Device Drivers and Adding New MCBs
- 3. GETTING STARTED — A GAMMAVISION TUTORIAL
- 3.1. Introduction
- 3.2. Starting GammaVision
- 4. DISPLAY FEATURES
- 5. MENU COMMANDS
- 5.1. File
- 5.2. Acquire
- 5.2.1. Acquisition Settings...
- 5.2.2. Start
- 5.2.3. Start/Save/Report
- 5.2.4. Stop
- 5.2.5. Clear
- 5.2.6. Copy to Buffer
- 5.2.7. List Mode
- 5.2.8. QA
- 5.2.9. Download Spectra...
- 5.2.10. ZDT Display Select
- 5.2.11. MCB Properties...
- 5.3. Calibrate
- 5.3.1. General Information, Cautions, and Tips
- 5.3.2. Energy...
- 5.3.3. Efficiency...
- 5.3.3.1. Introduction
- 5.3.3.2. Interpolative Fit
- 5.3.3.3. Linear Fit
- 5.3.3.4. Quadratic Fit
- 5.3.3.5. Polynomial Fit
- 5.3.3.6. TCC Polynomial Fit
- 5.3.3.7. Performing the Efficiency Calibration
- 5.3.3.8. Using The Library
- 5.3.3.9. Automatic Efficiency Calibration
- 5.3.3.10. Manual Calibration
- 5.3.3.11. Other Efficiency Sidebar Control Commands
- 5.3.3.12. Editing the Standard (.EFT) Table File
- 5.3.3.13. The Efficiency Graph Control Menu
- 5.3.3.14. The Efficiency Table Control Menu
- 5.3.4. Description...
- 5.3.5. Recall Calibration...
- 5.3.6. Save Calibration...
- 5.3.7. Print Calibration...
- 5.3.8. Calibration Wizard...
- 5.3.8.1. Energy Calibration — Setting Up a New Calibration or Recalling from File
- 5.3.8.2. Efficiency and Efficiency-plus-TCC Calibrations — Setting Up a New Calibration or Recalling from File
- 5.3.8.3. Performing the New Energy Calibration
- 5.3.8.4. Performing the New Efficiency or Efficiency-plus-TCC Calibration
- 5.3.8.5. Reviewing the Calibration Wizard Results
- 5.4. Calculate
- 5.5. Analyze
- 5.5.1. Settings
- 5.5.2. Peak Search
- 5.5.3. ROI Report...
- 5.5.4. Entire Spectrum in Memory...
- 5.5.5. Spectrum on Disk...
- 5.5.6. Display Analysis Results...
- 5.5.7. Interactive in Viewed Area...
- 5.6. Library
- 5.7. Services
- 5.8. ROI
- 5.9. Display
- 5.10. Window
- 5.11. Right-Mouse-Button (Context) Menu
- 6. ANALYSIS METHODS
- 6.1. General
- 6.2. The Analysis Engines
- 6.3. Calculation Details for Peaks
- 6.4. Suspected Nuclides
- 6.5. Locating Multiplets
- 6.6. Fraction Limit
- 6.7. Nuclide Activity
- 6.8. Total Activity (ROI32 Analysis Engine Only)
- 6.9. MDA
- 6.9.1. Computing MDA Values
- 6.9.2. GammaVision MDA Methods
- 6.9.2.1. Method 1: Traditional ORTEC
- 6.9.2.2. Method 2: Critical Level ORTEC
- 6.9.2.3. Method 3: Suppress MDA Output
- 6.9.2.4. Method 4: KTA Rule
- 6.9.2.5. Method 5: Japan 2 Sigma Limit
- 6.9.2.6. Method 6: Japan 3 Sigma Limit
- 6.9.2.7. Method 7: Currie Limit
- 6.9.2.8. Method 8: RISO MDA
- 6.9.2.9. Method 9: LLD ORTEC
- 6.9.2.10. Method 10: Peak Area
- 6.9.2.11. Method 11: Air Monitor — GIMRAD (also called DIN 25 482 Method)
- 6.9.2.12. Method 12: Regulatory Guide 4.16
- 6.9.2.13. Method 13: Counting Lab — USA
- 6.9.2.14. Method 14: Erkennungsgrenze (Detection Limit) DIN 25 482.5
- 6.9.2.15. Method 15: Nachweisgrenze DIN 25 482.5
- 6.9.2.16. Method 16: EDF — France
- 6.9.2.17. Method 17: NUREG 0472
- 6.9.2.18. Method 18: ISO Decision Threshold (CL)
- 6.9.2.19. Method 19: ISO Detection Limit (MDA)
- 6.10. Corrections
- 6.11. Random Summing
- 6.12. Reported Uncertainty
- 6.12.1. Total Uncertainty Estimate
- 6.12.2. Counting Uncertainty Estimate
- 6.12.3. Additional Normally Distributed Uncertainty Estimate
- 6.12.4. Random Summing Uncertainty Estimate
- 6.12.5. Absorption Uncertainty Estimate
- 6.12.6. Nuclide Uncertainty Estimate
- 6.12.7. Efficiency Uncertainty Estimate
- 6.12.8. Geometry Uncertainty Estimate
- 6.12.9. Uniformly Distributed Uncertainty Estimate
- 6.12.10. Additional User-Defined Uncertainty Factors
- 6.12.11. Sample Size Uncertainty
- 6.12.12. Peaked Background Correction and Uncertainty Calculations
- 6.13. EBAR — Average Energy
- 6.14. IEQ — Iodine Equivalence
- 6.15. DAC or MPC
- 6.16. True Coincidence Correction
- 6.17. ISO NORM Implementation in GammaVision
- 6.17.1. The ISO NORM Model in GammaVision
- 6.17.2. The Uncertainty of Net Peak Area
- 6.17.3. Other Quantities in ISO NORM
- 6.17.4. Conversion from Counts to Activity
- 6.17.5. Peak Calculation Details
- 6.17.6. Nuclide Calculation Details
- 6.17.6.1. Nuclide Activity
- 6.17.6.2. Nuclide Activity Counting Uncertainty
- 6.17.6.3. Nuclide Best Estimated Activity
- 6.17.6.4. Nuclide Best Estimated Activity Uncertainty
- 6.17.6.5. Nuclide Critical Level
- 6.17.6.6. Nuclide MDA
- 6.17.6.7. Nuclide Lower and Upper Activity Limits
- 6.17.6.8. Total Reported Activity
- 6.17.7. GammaVision / ISO NORM Unique Calculations
- 6.18. EDF Gamma Total Analysis
- 7. ANALYSIS REPORT
- 7.1. Report Header
- 7.2. Sample, Detector, and Acquisition Parameters
- 7.3. Calibration Parameters
- 7.4. Library Parameters
- 7.5. Analysis Parameters
- 7.6. Correction Parameters
- 7.7. Peak and Nuclide Tables
- 7.7.1. ROI Peak Summary (ROI32 Engine Only)
- 7.7.2. Summary of ROI Peak Usage (ROI32 Engine Only)
- 7.7.3. Summary of ROI Nuclides (ROI32 Engine Only)
- 7.7.4. Summary of Peaks in Range (ENV32 and NPP32 Only)
- 7.7.5. Unidentified Peak Summary
- 7.7.6. Identified Peak Summary
- 7.7.7. Summary of Library Peak Usage
- 7.7.8. Discarded Isotope Peaks
- 7.7.9. Summary of Discarded Peaks
- 7.7.10. Summary of Nuclides in Sample
- 7.7.11. Summary of Nuclides (ISO-NORM)
- 7.7.12. Iodine Equivalence and Average Energy Calculations
- 7.7.13. DAC Calculations
- 7.8. The EDF Special Application Report
- 8. QUALITY ASSURANCE
- 9. KEYBOARD FUNCTIONS
- 9.1. Introduction
- 9.2. Marker and Display Function Keys
- 9.2.1. Next Channel <→>/<←>
- 9.2.2. Next/Previous ROI <Shift + →>/<Shift + ←>
- 9.2.3. Next/Previous Peak <Ctrl + →>/<Ctrl + ←>
- 9.2.4. Next/Previous Library Entry <Alt + →>/<Alt + ←>
- 9.2.5. First/Last Channel <Home>/<End>
- 9.2.6. Jump (Sixteenth Screen Width) <PageDown>/<PageUp>
- 9.2.7. Insert ROI <Insert> or Keypad<Ins>
- 9.2.8. Clear ROI <Delete> or Keypad<Del>
- 9.2.9. Taller/Shorter <↑>/<↓>
- 9.2.10. Move Rubber Rectangle One Pixel <Shift + ↑, ↓, →, ←>
- 9.2.11. Compare Vertical Separation <Shift + ↑>/<Shift + ↓>
- 9.2.12. Zoom In/Zoom Out Keypad<+>/<->
- 9.2.13. Fine Gain <Alt + +>/<Alt + ->
- 9.2.14. Fine Gain (Large Move) <Shift + Alt + +>/<Shift + Alt + ->
- 9.2.15. Screen Capture <PrintScreen>
- 9.3. Keyboard Number Combinations
- 9.4. Function Keys
- 9.5. Keypad Keys
- 10. JOB FILES
- 11. UTILITIES
- APPENDIX A. STARTUP AND CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
- APPENDIX B. FILE FORMATS
- APPENDIX C. ERROR MESSAGES
- INDEX