Revolution is 4pi's standalone software application for Windows^® and Macintosh^®. The software is fully multi-tasking with easy-to-use point-and-click screen tools. Spectra, images and maps can be printed directly from the program. Purchases include free upgrades via download from 4pi's web site.

• Hyperspectral Imaging:
  
  • Principal Components Analysis
  • Maximum Pixel Spectrum: enables detection of rare elemental features in x-ray spectra and maps
  • full spectrum at every pixel: analysis and display
  • Dynamic Elemental Mapping: allows real-time selection of elements and processing parameters while any set of full spectrum-per-pixel x-ray maps is being acquired
• EDX imaging and mapping interface: x-ray imaging toolbar sets a new standard for power and ease of use
• micron marker interface and calibration window: virtually automatic
• click-and-drag measurement tool for all images and maps
• EDX quant engine. The new quant engine improves a variety of tricky analysis issues
• fast x-ray mapping

X-Ray Spectrum Acquisition and Display

• spectrum scaling (auto, linear/log)
• spectrum zoom
• spectrum overlay
• spectrum color control
• multiple spectra catalogs
• adjustable channel display (up to 4096)
• adjustable preset acquisition (realtime, livetime)
• acquire status display: deadtime, realtime/livetime counter, input/output count rate
• selectable pulse-processor (see SEII hardware specs)
• KLM markers with element labels
• user-defineable color ROIs with ROI sum display
• auto calibration (version 2.2 or later hardware)
• qualitative analysis using auto or manual
• quantitative analysis
  • auto or manual
  • bulk or thin film
  • with or without standards and mixed
• full text annotation
• FWHM of each identified element is an optional report column
• user control to show/hide every x-ray marker (total of 30: 5 K lines, 13 L lines, 12 M lines) for each of the 100 elements known by the internal database
• line plotting of spectra as well as original histogram style
• KLM markers can be either fixed height or scaled to peak heights with selectable text size for element symbols
• set individual spectrum colors (including KLM markers, KLM/Peak ID element text)
• intelligent labeling for spectrum energy axis (x-axis)
• spectrum math
• export to EMSA 1.0, EMSA 1.0 (XY), Xraytor, JPEG, PICT (Mac), BMP (Windows), ASCII
• export qual and quant results to Excel
• copy spectrum results to clipboard for paste to other applications
• copy/paste spectra between catalogs
• import/export of standards files: up to 50 elements can be added to a standard by editing a text file and importing

Digital Imaging and X-ray/WDS* Mapping

• simultaneous acquisition of digital images and WDS, and X-ray maps
• independent preview resolution (2 x 2 to 14k x 14k)
• independent acquire resolution (2 x 2 to 14k x 14k)
• variable aspect ratio
• selectable 8-, 16-bit pixel-depth
• selectable averaging/integrating (frame, pixel)
• acquire status display (x, y, frame, estimated time-to-completion)
• color line-profile display
• selectable real-time display scaling (full, max-min linear, log, square root)
• line-scan capability (single linear)
• user-defined magnification selector menu and optional magnification display in image
• calibrated micron marker in or below image
  • global and individual calibration factors
  • optional transparency, reverse video, marker frame, and marker size override
  • font size and style selection
  • live on-image display
• scanning control
  • left-right or up-down scanning
  • independent adjustable horizontal/vertical retrace delay (0-100 ms)
  • adjustable pixel-stepping delay (0-800 µs)
  • line-sync (50 and 60 Hz)
• zoom and pan images
• text annotation
• cross-platform read of 8- and 16-bit grayscale TIFFs
• cross-platform read/write of color TIFFs (RGB 8 bit)
• image level adjust; arbitrary or with presets: applies to front-most image
• cross-platform read of mbd (Revolution native data) files
• SEM Imaging Mode: dedicated mode for acquiring and annotating digital images
• user-defined display scaling for imaging/mapping
• facility, instrument and comments text fields added to append below area

Image Acquisition and Display

• select up to 2 channels for digital imaging (system may be ordered with additional channels) and generate image of any external analog signal; suitable for:
  • backscattered electron
  • secondary electron
  • absorbed current
  • cathodoluminescence
  • EBIC
• adjustable dwell time: 1-1600 µs, sub-µs capability

X-ray Map Collection and Display

• user-definable ROIs, up to 96 (92 pre-defined elements, 4 arbitrary backgrounds
• save spectrum at every pixel
• grayscale or color maps
• color phase map
• slow mapping (live- or real-time acquisition)
• probe crosshair
• background subtraction
• adjustable dwell time: 1ms-100sec

• select up to 4 channels of external TTL signals for WDS mapping
• wide dynamic range: < 1 cps to 500,000 cps
• sequential or parallel acquisition
• adjustable dwell time: 1µs-16sec

Image/Map File Management

• autosave to disk feature with overwrite control
• autoname feature
• printer DPI control
• selectable file formats: JPEG, BMP (Windows) TIFF-PC, TIFF-Mac, PICT (Mac)

Please submit your feature requests!

Send technical questions to support.
Contact sales for pricing.
This feature list is for information purposes and may change without notice

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last updated: July 16, 2011