cReadRawPhi: Ulvac phi ToF-SIMS raw data import

In tofsims: Import, process and analysis of Time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (ToF-SIMS) imaging data

Description

Function to read raw data from the ulvac-phi trift TOF-SIMS

Usage

cReadRawPhi(
  analysisName,
  mode = c("spectra", "imagepeaks", "image"),
  PeakListobj = c(),
  ...
)

Arguments

analysisName	character
mode	character
PeakListobj	object of class PeakList
...	additional args

Details

This import function works on data recorded on the ulvac-phi trift ToF-SIMS with WinCadence software version V4.2. Other versions mostl likley will not work. In the current version, data has to be imported with 16bit word length, then converted to 64bit binary and finally converted and read with the word lenghts of the respective variables. Currently, the data is unit mass binned with bins of size one from -0.5 to + 0.5.

Value

parsed rawdata for further processing

Author(s)

Lorenz Gerber, Viet Mai Hoang

tofsims documentation built on Nov. 8, 2020, 5:10 p.m.