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Photon-HDF5 Reference Documentation
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Handling of dead pixels #31

Closed smXplorer closed 7 years ago

smXplorer commented 8 years ago

For multispot experiments, it would be helpful to know about "dead" detectors (those which do not output timestamps, but are part of the detector). In practice, it is of course possible to give pixels pixelIDs which provide this information (for instance, if pixel 3 of a series 1, 2, ... 16, is dead, the remaining pixels can be given pixelIDs: 1, 2, 4, , ..., 16). In other words, I think having spots with empty timestamps and detectors arrays, but non-empty detector specs, should be possible. It is possible in the current format, but the documentation does not discuss this at all and therefore there is an ambiguity that could lead to confusion and problems in the future.

tritemio commented 8 years ago

Note: I experienced incompatibilities issues with using empty arrays.

smXplorer commented 8 years ago

If the number of timestamps for each pixelID is provided (see another suggestion), this shouldn't be a problem.

tritemio commented 7 years ago

Closing. This is addressed by the new field /setup/detectors/counts. See #33.