On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, Carlo Segre wrote:
This module supports access to X-ray absorption data. It is designed
to be a transparent interface to absorption data from a variety of
sources. Currently, the only sources of data are the 1969 McMaster
tables, the 1999 Elam tables, the 1993 Henke tables, and the 1995
Chantler tables. The Brennan-Cowen implementation of the
Cromer-Liberman tables is available as a drop-on-top addition to this
package. More resources can be added easily.
Hi Carlo,
can you imagine applications where this "variety of sources" includes
x-ray data from medical care? I'm wondering whether this package might
be an interesting target for the Debian Med physics task. Or are the
ITPed packages rather targeting at particle physics and do not really
targeting at medical care?
IMHO it would not harm if you would add the answer to this question as
a separate paragraph to the description.
Hmm, the answer is that these modules allow the calculation of how matter
absorbs xrays of different energies. The McMaster tables are the basic
reference and have been extended by the Elam and Henke tables to provide
additional quantities (fluorescence and total cross-section). The
calculations can beused byt many different kinds of researchers, basically
anyone who is interested in the interaction of x-rays with matter. I am sure
that this includes medical physicists but I do not know if there are other
tabulations of data specifically made for medical physics.
Well, I just propagate this information to Debian Med list. If nobody
raises explicit interest we will leave it out. IMHO a suggests in med-physics
will not really harm if anybody might see some use for it. Thanks for
the clarification anyway.
The calculations are probably not terribly useful to particle physicists
though, more to condensed matter and materials physicists and chemists. These
modules are necessary components for the horae suite of programs for analysis
of x-ray absorption spectroscopy and they used to be hidden in the horae
package but have been split out now.
So this might make sense in science-physics and science-chemistry as well.
i will certainly consider improving the long description in future releases.
For now, i prefer to leave them in the incoming queue as they are.
That's fine for sure.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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