3. GETTING STARTED — A GAMMAVISION TUTORIAL. ORTEC A66-BW GammaVision

3. GETTING STARTED — A GAMMAVISION

TUTORIAL

3.1. Introduction

This chapter provides a series of straightforward examples to help you become familiar with

GammaVision’s basic operations and move on quickly to full use. We will cover the following basic functions:

! Recalling a spectrum file from disk

! Performing a simple analysis of the spectrum

! Loading a nuclide library

! Using the library editor

! Energy calibration

! Efficiency calibration

! The calibration wizard

! Getting a Detector ready for data acquisition

To display help for any of the dialogs, put the mouse pointer on the item and click the right mouse button to display the button. Now click the left mouse button to display the help message. After reading the help message, click the left mouse button to close the message box.

To make the discussion easier and more realistic, the optionally installed sample files in

\GammaVision V7 Examples

will be used in the remainder of the chapter.

them in the examples folder or copy them to

C:\User

.

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C:\User

You may either leave

Before we actually begin, here is a short note on the Detector and buffer concept used in

GammaVision.

A spectrum can exist in three places in GammaVision:

! In an MCB (which we call a Detector)

! In computer memory (a buffer window in GammaVision)

! In a file on disk

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If you chose not to install the example files, you may wish to reinstall GammaVision and choose to install the files.

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