# Workshop Announcement  BAER 2000

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Please join **PerkinElmer ORTEC^®\ ^** for two short presentations on
exciting new developments in analysis software for alpha- and
gamma-spectrometry.

**Sunday November 12, 3:30-5:00**

**Session 1 (3:30 -- 4:15 PM)**  The New Generation of True Coincidence
Summing Corrections Using GammaVision 5.2.

**Session 2 (4:15 -- 5:00 PM)**  **ORTEC^®^** introduces AlphaVision
5.0  Introducing the State of the Art in Windows-Based
Alpha-Spectrometry Analysis Software.

**PerkinElmer ORTEC^®\ ^**offers a wide range of world-class training
and educational experiences in alpha- and gamma-spectroscopy. Courses of
study are offered as regularly scheduled events or customized sessions
to meet the needs of our clients. Literally hundreds of
counting-laboratory supervisors and operators have taken advantage of
the expertise and knowledge of the ORTEC staff. In the field of
radioactivity measurements, there is no substitute for the knowledge and
skill of a well-trained radiochemist or spectroscopist. **PerkinElmer
ORTEC^®\ ^**is committed to creating a total solution for solving the
radioanalytical problems of counting laboratories  world-wide.

Please join us for these exciting workshops!

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# Day One, Sunday November 12, 3:30-5:00

##### Session 1

## The New Generation in True Coincidence Corrections for Gamma Spectrometry

[Doug Van Cleef]{.underline}, PerkinElmer Instruments, 801 S. Illinois
Avenue, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-0895, Phone: (865) 843-2245, Email:
doug_vancleef@perkinelmer.com.

Dan Upp, PerkinElmer Instruments, 801 S. Illinois Avenue, Oak Ridge, TN
37831-0895, Phone: (865) 843-2106, Email: dan_upp@perkinelmer.com.

As long as there have been multi-nuclide gamma ray measurements,
scientist, researchers, and lab personnel have had to deal with some
degree of inaccuracy in measurements due to the summing-in and
summing-out effects of coincident gamma interactions. For specific
nuclides, numerous empirical techniques have been employed, with varying
levels of success, to correct for known or estimated inaccuracies.
PerkinElmer Instruments has recently included real-time True Coincidence
Correction in its GammaVision^^ gamma spectroscopy software. This
session will present an overview and real world examples of the dramatic
improvements that can be realized with the True Coincidence Correction
software.

##### Session 2

## A New Generation in PC-Based Alpha-Spectrometry Analysis Software  **PerkinElmer ORTEC^®^** Introduces AlphaVision 5.0

[Michael Schultz]{.underline}, PerkinElmer Instruments, 801 S. Illinois
Avenue, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-0895, Phone: (865) 481-2446, Email:
michael.schultz@perkinelmer.com

Doug Van Cleef, PerkinElmer Instruments, 801 S. Illinois Avenue, Oak
Ridge, TN 37831-0895, Phone: (865) 843-2245, Email:
doug_vancleef@perkinelmer.com.

**PerkinElmer ORTEC^®\ ^** introduces a new generation in
alpha-spectrometry spectral analysis and sample management software 
**AlphaVision 5.0**.

**AlphaVision 5.0** represents a major advancement in PC-based
alpha-spectrometry spectral analysis and data management. This new
release in the ORTEC family of Vision products has been developed in
concert with radioanalytical-production-laboratory managers and
operators throughout the world. Key features that these professionals
asked us to include are:

-   **Cost-effective**, flexible, PC-based operating system.

-   **Efficient**, flexible, Microsoft Windows user interface with
    familiar hot keys and tools and easy data storage and retrieval
    modes.

-   **Simple**, easy-to-learn analysis routines and automation  minimum
    training hours for routine tasks.

-   **Easy** custom report generation for constantly changing client
    needs.

-   **Flexible** QA features for retrieving customized control charts
    and data.

-   **Rapid mode sample set up** and MCA operation with effective,
    time-saving "Quick Start, Stop, ROI data report" functions included.

**AlphaVision 5.0** is a true-windows application  the software
includes all of the Microsoft Windows commands and hot key tools (e.g.,
file storage and recall) that you use routinely. Data are archived in
simple Microsoft Access Database Tables for easy recall and custom
report generation

**AlphaVision 5.0** provides a complete solution for alpha-spectral
collection and analysis with built-in capability for controlling the MCB
hardware, collecting alpha spectra from solid state detectors, analyzing
the results by one of several methods and generating reports (using
Access or Crystal Reports Report Writer).