DTSA

Desk Top Spectrum Analyzer and X-Ray Data Base

NIST/NIH Version 3.0.1

by

Charles E. Fiori (deceased)
National Institute of Standards and Technology,
Gaithersburg MD 20899

Carol R. Swyt (retired)
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892

and

Robert L. Myklebust (retired, now guest researcher)
National Institute of Standards and Technology,
Gaithersburg MD 20899

This is a users manual for the DTSA Program.

• Introduction
  

• Program Features
  

• Quantitative Analysis
  

• Main Display
  

• Acknowledgments
  

• The File System
  

• DTSA Application
  

• XrayData
  

• Preferences.MCA
  

• DTSA Refs
  

• DTSA FIT
  

• DTSA MLLSQ SET-UP
  

• DTSA Cliff-Lorimer k-factors
  

• DTSA Hall SET-UP
  

• DTSA Hall OUTPUT
  

• DTSA ZAF Standards
  

• DTSA ZAF Set-up
  

• DTSA Composition Database
  

• DTSA Markers Set
  

• DTSA Acquisition Plug-in
  

• DTSA Foreign File Plug-ins
  

• DTSA FILE Format
  

• DTSA QC Setup
  

• The FILE MENU
  

• FILE MENU
  

• Import/Export Files
  

• Save Spectra as Spreadsheet
  

• Save Spectrum to Disk
  

• Append Spectrum Old File
  

• Get DTSA Spectrum
  

• MLLSQ References
  

• New Reference File
  

• Displaying References
  

• Append Reference
  

• Fit Files
  

• DTSA Preferences
  

• Display Options
  

• Label Font Size
  

• Printing
  

• The ANALYSIS MENU
  

• DTSA ZAF
  

• Make ZAF Standards
  

• Setup ZAF Analysis
  

• Cliff-Lorimer
  

• Make K Factors
  

• Show K Factors
  

• Quant
  

• Show Quant Results
  

• Standardless ZAF Miracle
  

• HALL Bio Analysis
  

• Preparing for a Hall Analysis
  

• Setting up Hall Analysis
  

• Fit ALL Work File Spectra
  

• Open & Qual a DTSA File
  

• Qual (Begin with displayed spectra)
  

• CITZAF Quantitation
  

• Manual Peak Stripping
  

• EDS Detector QC
  

• The GENERATE MENU
  

• GENERATE MENU
  

• Peaks Manually
  

• Make File of n Noise Spectra
  

• Thin Target Spectrum / Bulk Target Spectrum
  

• Select Outputs
  

• Pick Your Physics
  

• The MATH MENU
  

• MATH MENU
  

• Clear...
  

• Add Work to Results
  

• Add Poissón Noise to Work
  

• Measure Beam Energy
  

• Convert WDS Scan to Energy Scale
  

• Smooth
  

• Digital Filter
  

• Background Subtract
  

• Strip Escape Peaks
  

• Detector Response into RESULTS
  

• Replace Detector Response by WORK
  

• Calculate Response NOW (from WORK header)
  

• X Ray Database
  

• The HEADER MENU
  

• HEADERS MENU
  

• Experiment Header
  

• Spectrum Header
  

• EDS Detector Information
  

• WDS Detector Information
  

• Detector-Instrument Geometry
  

• Detector-Specimen Geometry
  

• Composition Information
  

• The ACQUIRE MENU
  

• ACQUIRE MENU
  

• AssignDisplay(s)
  

• The MAIN CONTROL WINDOW
  

• Calibrate
  

• MLLSQ multiple linear least squares
  

• Setting up MLLSQ Fitting
  

• Using a Set-up File
  

• Fitting
  

• Simplex
  

• Do a Fit
  

• Add Fit
  

• See Fit
  

• Calculator
  

• Save Work
  

• Peak ID
  

• Auto Peak Label
  

• Auto Peak Options
  

• ROI (Regions-of-Interest)
  

• Copy Wk
  

• Copy Rslt
  

• Mouse Function Radio Buttons
  

• Swap Wk & Rslt
  

• Spectrum-from-File Access Controls
  

• KLM and Energy Markers Controls
  

• Spectrum Scaling Controls
  

• APPENDIX
  

• The Pascal Headers
  

• "Standardless" Analysis
  

• User Interfaces
  

• Make File of n Noise Spectra
  

• Gaussian and Lorentzian Distributions
  

• Measure Beam Energy
  

• Hardware Interfacing
  

• F Keys and Keyboard Shortcuts
  

• Detector Window Transmission
  

• Background Filtering
  

• CASE STUDIES
  

• Background Modeling
  

• Quantitative ZAF Analysis
  

• Standardization Procedure
  

• Unknown Procedure
  

• BIBLIOGRAPHY
  

This software was developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the National Institutes of Health by employees of the Federal Government in the course of their official duties. Pursuant to title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code this software is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. DTSA is an experimental system. NIST/NIH assume no responsibility whatsoever for its use by other parties, and make no guarantees, expressed or implied, about its quality, reliability, or any other characteristic. We would appreciate acknowledgement if the software is used.

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