renishawWiRE 0.1.1

Reading wdf Raman spectroscopy file from Renishaw WiRE

A python wrapper for read-only accessing the wdf Raman spectroscopy file format created by the WiRE software of Ranishaw Inc. Renishaw Inc owns copyright of the wdf file format.

Ideas for reverse-engineering the WDF format is inspired by:

• Renishaw File Reader by Alex Henderson (DOI:10.5281/zenodo.495477))
• Renishaw IO module in Gwyddion

Installation

Requirements:

• python version > 3.4
• Numpy
• Matplotlib (optional, if you want to plot the spectra in the examples)

Versions hosted on PyPI: via pip

# Optionally on a virtualenv
pip install -U renishawWiRE

HEAD version: via git + pip

Caution! cloning the repo (when you have git-lfs installed) will also get all the example Raman spectra files which ends up to be around 40 MiB.

git clone https://github.com/alchem0x2A/py-wdf-reader.git
cd py-wdf-reader
pip install .

Basic Usage

Check the sample codes in samples/ folder for more details about what the package can do.

Get file information

renishawWiRE.WDFReader is the main entry point to get information of a WDF file.

# The following example shows how to get the info from a WDF file
# Check `examples/ex1_getinfo.py`
from renishawWiRE import WDFReader

#`filename` can be string, file obj or `pathlib.Path`
filename = "path/to/your/file.wdf"
reader = WDFReader(filename)
reader.print_info()

Get single point spectrum / spectra

When the spectrum is single-point (WDFReader.measurement_type == 1), WDFReader.xdata is the spectral points, and WDFReader.spectra is the accumulated spectrum.

# Example to read and plot single point spectrum
# Assume same file as in previous section
# Check `examples/ex2_sp_spectra.py`
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
wavenumber = reader.xdata
spectra = reader.spectra
plt.plot(wavenumber, spectra)

Get depth series spectra

A depth series measures contains single point spectra with varied Z-depth. For this type WDFReader.measurement_type == 2.

WIP

Get line scan from StreamLine™ / StreamHR Line™ measurements

For mapped measurements (line or grid scan), WDFReader.measurement_type == 3. The code to get the spectra are the same as the one in the single point spectra measurement, instead that the WDFReade.spectra becomes a matrix with size of (x_steps, 1, point_per_spectrum):

# Example to read line scane spectrum
# Check `examples/ex3_linscan.py`
filename = "path/to/line-scan.wdf"
reader = WDFReader(filename)
wn = reader.xdata
spectra = reader.spectra
print(wn.shape, spectra.shape)

It is also possible to correlate the xy-coordinates with the spectra. For a mapping measurement, WDFReader.xpos and WDFReader.ypos will contain the point-wise x and y coordinates.

# Check examples/ex4_linxy.py for details
x = reader.xpos
y = reader.ypos
# Cartesian distance
d = (x ** 2 + y ** 2) ** (1 / 2)

Get grid mapping from StreamLine™ / StreamHR Line™ measurements

Finally let's extract the grid-spaced Raman data. For mapping data with spectra_w pixels in the x-direction and spectra_h in the y-direction, the matrix of spectra is shaped into (spectra_h, spectra_w, points_per_spectrum).

Make sure your xy-coordinates starts from the top left corner.

# For gridded data, x and y are on rectangle grids
# check examples/ex5_mapping.py for details
x = reader.xpos
y = reader.ypos
spectra = reader.spectra
# Use other packages to handle spectra
# write yourself the function or use a 3rd-party libray
mapped_data = some_treating_function(spectra, **params)
# plot mapped data using plt.imshow
plt.pcolor(mapped_data, extends=[0, x.max() - x.min(),
                                 y.max() - y.min(), 0])

TODOs

There are still several functionalities not implemented:

• Extract image info
• Verify image coordinate superposition
• Improve series measurement retrieval
• Testing on various version of Renishaw instruments
• Binary utilities

Bug reports

The codes are only tested on the Raman spectra files that generated from my personal measurements. If you encounter any peculiar behavior of the package please kindly open an issue with your report / suggestions. Thx!