SANS & USANS Analysis with IGOR Pro
**NEW JUNE 2008**
A major upgrade of the analysis and reduction software has been completed based on user suggestions. There is a completely new, more intuitive interface for analysis that allows easier control of data and model fits. These changes enhance the tools available to our users in order to permit faster, more complex analyses of their scattering data than are currently possible. Behind the scenes, compiled XOP code and multithreading can add more than a factor of 10 speedup in analysis computations.
- All of the SANS and USANS Reduction and Analysis procedures are now in a single download package that includes an installer and updater.
- Installation instructions: Install_Instructions.txt
- NOTE: This new release requires Igor 6. They will not run on Igor 3, 4, or 5. If you need older, no longer supported versions of the macros, please contact Steve Kline or Andrew Jackson.
- What's New?
- Manuals are included in the download package, or are available separately:
- SANS Reduction Help File (PDF)
- USANS Reduction Help File (PDF)
- Data Analysis Help File (PDF)
- Model Functions Help File (PDF)
- Some of the new features in the package are highlighted in video documentation (you need to have QuickTime installed to view these movies)
- IGOR Pro and the free demo version of Igor are available from WaveMetrics.
If you reduced or analyzed your data using the Igor Macros, please include the following reference: "Reduction and Analysis of SANS and USANS Data using Igor Pro", Kline, S. R. J Appl. Cryst. 39(6), 895 (2006).
The SANS group at the NIST Center for Neutron Research provides SANS and USANS Data Reduction and Analysis software in a visual and user-friendly form. The NCNR software is compatible with Macintosh/PC platforms and requires that IGOR Pro be installed. You do not have to purchase IGOR Pro - a free demo version of IGOR Pro is available, and will produce ASCII output that can easily be read in by other graphics or analysis software packages. IGOR Pro (* see disclaimers below) is a commercial software product available to Mac/PC users. This release of SANS procedures requires IGOR Pro v.6.02 or higher.
*Disclaimers:
- The use of certain trade names or commercial products does not imply any endorsement of a particular product, nor does it imply that the named product is necessarily the best product for the stated purpose.
- While every effort has been made to test the accuracy of these functions, the user has personal responsibility to understand the limits of applicability of a given model.
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Last modified 19-June-2008