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
Paper and supplemental material
The applications and subVI in this software package are the supplement of a publication in Applied Spectroscopy: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!).
The documentation of the paper is included in the documentation folder. It constists of a combination of the submitted paper and supplemental material. It combines an introduction to general problems related to quantitative spectroscopic analysis is given. Furthermore, all methods (subVIs) and the full analysis chain (Application) from the software package are introduced and their abbilities are discussed in several examples.
The parts based on the supplemental material to this publication give more details about the routines and their implementation. This document already serves as practical instruction to the subVIs and applications of this package.
Help files
In the folder documentation/help detailed help is provided about all VIs in the style of the original LabVIEW help by National Instruments. This files can be used in standalone mode or directly from LabVIEW since the VIs are linked to the helpfile.
Tutorial and sample data
In order to learn about the functionality of SpecTools a step-by-step tutorial is provided in the folder documentation. The tutorial deals with sample files which can be found in the folder sample-files. More information about the sample file are given in the tutorial.
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;