Swansea University (UK) and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (GER) 
SpecTools
- an OpenSource software package
Automated Quantitative Spectroscopic Analysis Combining Background Subtraction, Cosmic-Ray Removal and Peak Fitting programmed in LabVIEW
Copyright
SpecTools package
Copyright (C) 2012 Magnus Schlösser (magnus.schloesser@googlemail.com), Tim James (tim.james1987@googlemail.com) and Richard Lewis (r.j.lewis@physics.org)
Version 1.1.0
Note, that the copyright of the individual VIs may be different to authorlist above. The respective authorlist is found in the inline documentation of the single VIs.
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
License
The software is license under the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License or (at your option) any later version. The license can be seen here.
Scientific use
The applications and subVI in this software package are the supplement of a publication in Applied Spectroscopy. If you have used this software for scientific or other purposes the please cite the following paper: T. M. James, M. Schlösser, R. J. Lewis, S. Fischer, B. Bornschein, and H. H. Telle, "Automated Quantitative Spectroscopic Analysis Combining Background Subtraction, Cosmic-Ray Removal and Peak Fitting", Applied Spectroscopy, 2012 (Volume and Issue will be supplied soon!)
Copyright & License
All applications and subVI contained in the "Spectools" are free software and licensed under terms of the GNU General Public License.
How to cite?
The applications and subVI in this software package are the supplement of a publication in Applied Spectroscopy. If you have used this software for scientific or other purposes the please cite the following paper: T. M. James, M. Schlösser, R. J. Lewis, S. Fischer, B. Bornschein, and H. H. Telle, "Automated Quantitative Spectroscopic Analysis Combining Background Subtraction, Cosmic-Ray Removal and Peak Fitting", Applied Spectroscopy, 2012 (Volume and Issue will be supplied soon!)
Software archive
The latest version of the Spectool package can be obtained from the sourceforge http://sourceforge.net/projects/spectools/
LabVIEW version support
Current package version
SpecTools Version 1.1.0
Executables
In order to execute the binaries a run-time engine for LabVIEW 2009 needs to be installed. The run-time engines can be downloaded from National Instruments. Run-time engines are available for Windows, Linux and MacOS.
LabVIEW VIs
Supported LabVIEW versions: LV9.0 (2009)
Change log
4. July 2012
- Help files added
- Minor changes to tutorial
28. June 2012
- Minor changes to Spectrum Processing Suite (Astigmastim correction with ROI in batch mode fixed and some visual details)
- Tutorial and further sample files added
Missing: help files
26. June 2012
- Load Spectrum VI changed(to enable single spectrum operation when TCRR is deactivated)
- Astigmatism creator spectrum save-format unified.
- Astigmatism correction with ROI enabled.
- Tuning dialog updated.
- Minor changes to Spectrum Processing Suite
- Documentation added
Missing: Tutorial; help files
19. June 2012
- Single/batch processing bug in Spectrum processing suite fixed.
- Copyright information added to all VIs.
- Sample files added
Missing: Tutorial; copy of paper and supplementary materials; help files;
18. June 2012
Missing: Tutorial and sample files; copy of paper and supplementary materials; help files;