Analyst – specialist software for luminescence data
Analyst is a Windows based program designed to allow you to view, edit and analyse luminescence data collected using a Risø automated TL/OSL reader, though other instruments may also generate datafiles that are compatible. Analyst offers a range of facilities, including equivalent dose determination, calculation of fading rates, component fitting of OSL decay curves and various options for visualisation of data. Additionally, since it is impossible for any analytical program to cater for every possibility it allows you to export the data in a variety of formats so that it can be transferred to other programs, including spreadsheets.
The basic file structure used by Analyst is the BINX file. This program has been designed to operate in conjunction with the Sequence Editor programme supplied by Risø for running the latest generation of automated TL/OSL readers. Older versions of this software created BIN files, and these are compatible for this version of Analyst, but not all of the features described here are available with BIN files.
Download Analyst
November 2018 - v4.57
Download 'analyst_v457_setup.EXE' to install Analyst v4.57, example data files and context sensitive help system. A small number of R scripts are also included in the default installation
Version 4.31.9 of Analyst provides support for the latest BINX file format (version 8) that is used by the Sequence Editor and which includes data for the DASH automated filter and detector changer.
Analyst is free to download and use, but users may like to include a reference to one of the two publications listed below if they use the package for data processing that is published.
Analyst provides capabilities for determining equivalent dose. Dose Rate Calculator (DRAC) provides an online package for determining dose rates to sediments
Aberystwyth Luminescence Research Laboratory web pages provide a wide range of information, about the laboratory and staff, their research, and training and study possibilities
The information provided on this and other pages by me, Geoff Duller (ggd@aber.ac.uk), is under my own personal responsibility and not that of the Aberystwyth University. Similarly, any opinions expressed are my own and are in no way to be taken as those of Aberystwyth University.
Analyst is a Windows based program designed to allow you to view, edit and analyse luminescence data collected using a Risø automated TL/OSL reader, though other instruments may also generate datafiles that are compatible. Analyst offers a range of facilities, including equivalent dose determination, calculation of fading rates, component fitting of OSL decay curves and various options for visualisation of data. Additionally, since it is impossible for any analytical program to cater for every possibility it allows you to export the data in a variety of formats so that it can be transferred to other programs, including spreadsheets.
