KO-LABSUE - A QUASI NONDEPENDENT DATA FORMAT PACKAGE FOR K-0-QUANTIFICATION

The k(0)-standardization method has been extensively used in the Pierr e Sue laboratory during the last few years. We had developed two diffe rent new programs which both used parts of a commercial package (Canbe rra or Nuclear Data), for example: isotope parameter editor, automatic peak search, nuclide identification. However, further adaptation of t hese packages is not easy, due to the specific data handling of the tw o programs. In order to overcome these constraints, we decided to writ e a completely new program, Ko-LABSUE, which is as independent of the manufacturer specifications as possible. All of the different steps of the k(0)-quantification (automatic peak search, nuclide identificatio n, calculation of elemental concentration etc.) are processed by modul es written in TURBO-PASCAL. Only two ''unit'' modules have to be re-wr itten to process manufacturer data fries of different formats: the mod ules used to read the spectrum data and the detector efficiency curve. This program runs on an IBM-PC and is currently on ''beta-test'' in o ur laboratory.