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Add .ptu T2 support for antibunching measurements #43

Open trevhull opened 6 years ago

trevhull commented 6 years ago

It seems like most of these applications are for FRET/lifetime measurements, but adding antibunching capabilities would be awesome. Maybe it can already be done but while I was able to load .ptu files taken in T3 mode I could not get T2 .ptu files to work. Maybe I'm the only person who needs this, but I think it would be useful for non-FRET TCSPC users!

smXplorer commented 3 years ago

@trevhull: This is coming way after the question, but @tritemio not being active on this project anymore AFAIK, I'll attempt an answer. Photon-HDF5 is vendor file agnostic. Any .ptu (or .sdt or what have you) considerations are obviously not directly referred to in the different photon-HDF5 (ph5) fields. Conversion from .ptu to a ph5 file is done (for instance) by phconvert, which would have to interpret T2 mode .ptu files. You probably want to check the 0.5.dev specification at https://photon-hdf5.readthedocs.io/en/0.5.dev/ where a "generic" measurement_type was added to essentially allow any kind of data interpretation/packaging within ph5 (not sure why it cannot be accessed anymore from readthedocs as a pull-down item anymore). I am not clear about the status of phconvert, but I believe it does support that format. Whether or not it does convert T2 .ptu files into ph5 ones (version 0.5.dev), I am not sure, but that would be your next question (to be addressed on the phconvert site). HTH.