Read Becker & Hickl SDT files
Project description
Sdtfile is a Python library to read SDT files produced by Becker & Hickl SPCM software. SDT files contain time correlated single photon counting instrumentation parameters and measurement data. Currently only the “Setup & Data”, “DLL Data”, and “FCS Data” formats are supported.
Becker & Hickl GmbH is a manufacturer of equipment for photon counting.
- Author:
- Organization:
Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics. University of California, Irvine
- License:
3-clause BSD
- Version:
2019.7.28
Requirements
Revisions
- 2019.7.28
Fix reading compressed, multi-channel data.
- 2018.9.22
Use str, not bytes for ASCII data.
- 2018.8.29
Move module into sdtfile package.
- 2018.2.7
Bug fixes.
- 2016.3.30
Support revision 15 files and compression.
- 2015.1.29
Read SPC DLL data files.
- 2014.9.5
Fixed reading multiple MEASURE_INFO records.
Notes
The API is not stable yet and might change between revisions.
Python 2.7 and 3.4 are deprecated.
References
W Becker. The bh TCSPC Handbook. Third Edition. Becker & Hickl GmbH 2008. pp 401.
SPC_data_file_structure.h header file. Part of the Becker & Hickl SPCM software.
Examples
Read image and metadata from a SPC Setup & Data File:
>>> sdt = SdtFile('image.sdt') >>> sdt.header.revision 588 >>> sdt.info.id[1:-1] 'SPC Setup & Data File' >>> int(sdt.measure_info[0].scan_x) 128 >>> len(sdt.data) 1 >>> sdt.data[0].shape (128, 128, 256) >>> sdt.times[0].shape (256,)
Read data and metadata from a SPC Setup & Data File with mutliple data sets:
>>> sdt = SdtFile('fluorescein.sdt') >>> len(sdt.data) 4 >>> sdt.data[3].shape (1, 1024) >>> sdt.times[3].shape (1024,)
Read data from a SPC FCS Data File as numpy array:
>>> sdt = SdtFile('fcs.sdt') >>> sdt.info.id[1:-1] 'SPC FCS Data File' >>> len(sdt.data) 1 >>> sdt.data[0].shape (512, 512, 256) >>> sdt.times[0].shape (256,)
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