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Quantum 4

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Compact display of essential status information screen.
 
 

Manual control of motor and shutter screen.
 

Image display
 
 

Magnification of image above.

Three dimensional representation of the data shown above.

Line cuts through sections of data displayed with the distance in angstroms, or adjacent spots for approximate asix length determination.

Software Provided with Quantum CCD Detectors:

ADSC supplies a sophisticated, leading edge, suite of programs data acquisition and control. This software runs on many common Unix platforms:  Silicon Graphics, DEC Alphas, Suns, and Intel based Linux PCs. 

The ADSC Quantum software is designed to have a common look and feel regardless of the specific synchrotron beam line or home lab equipment configuration. In fact, the software is divided into six different processes only one of which, changes from one installation to another. Since only one module, the "beamline control" module, will change from site to site, and all beamline control processes use a common interface to the main control process, we can ensure an operating environment for ADSC detector systems which is robust and well-tested. Specialized beamline interfacing is  included in the price of all Quantum detectors. So far, eight different beamline control interfaces have been successfully  installed and are currently operational. 

Another unique feature of the ADSC Quantum software is the ability to use multiple computers in the control and operation of the CCD detector.  Different computers can be mixed for optimal detector performance.  This is possible because the interface between each of the six component processes uses TCP/IP network protocol. 

The Control Graphical User Interface is a key part of the ADSC software; users will interact only with this module.  Some of the features it supports are: 

Compact display of essential status information.

 

Manual control of motors and shutter. 

 

Manual wavelength change if the beamline supports it. 

 

Ability to define one or more runs to the system at a given time. 

 

Data compression of the images on output. 

Complete freedom to choose among high or low speed analog-to-digital converter in combination with no binning or 2x2 binning. 

 

Geometric and intensity  correction optional. 

 

Can choose to save "raw" data. 

 

Inverse Beam Method data collection enabled with a single button.  Support for both single axis and Kappa  geometry. 

 

{MAD} data collection runs with up to five wavelengths may be defined.  All possible wavelength switching schemes are implemented; inverse beam data collection is supported in this mode as well. 

 

Once images are acquired from the CCD, the user naturally will want to inspect them.  For this function, we have what we consider to be the best image display program in the industry, "adxv". 

Magnify window with variable magnifications.

 

Three dimensional representation of the data. 

 

Different color representation methods, including, of course, gray scale. 

 

"Line Cuts" through sections of data can be displayed along with the distance, in angstroms, of adjacent spots for approximate axis length determination. 

 

Data from the main display window, magnify window, or line cut window can be saved in character, binary, or  postscript format for convenient later inclusion into experiment documentation and publications.