Features

• Comprehensive operation and management software for CANBERRA’s gas-flow, multi-detector alpha/beta counters
• Compatible with LB4100, Mini20 and IN20 systems
• Sample database tracks samples through log-in, counting and data review processes
• Device setup for generation of plateaus and multiple regions of interest (ROIs)
• Selectable count modes:
  • Alpha only
  • Alpha/beta simultaneous
  • Alpha then beta
• Enhanced efficiency calibration including multiple curve-fitting models
• Integrated QA capabilities
• Custom procedure creation for sample type-specific acquisition and analysis
• Simplified data reporting with integrated custom report generator
• Comprehensive event logging records every event on the system – with flexible recall
• Multi-level security system limits user access to only the prescribed functions allowed by the system manager
• Common look and feel with the rest of CANBERRA’s family of Apex® Productivity Software
• Includes SQL Server® Express database
• Future support planned for CANBERRA’s automatic alpha/beta counter platforms

Description

Apex-Alpha/Beta™ is a Windows^®-based software application for automating detector setup and calibration, quality assurance, sample analysis and reporting activities with CANBERRA’s low background alpha/beta counting systems. Currently, only multi-detector systems are supported by the software including the LB4100, IN20 and Mini20, but support will be expanded to CANBERRA’s automatic sample changer platform in a future release. The software is designed for the way samples are counted in production laboratories, thereby making gross alpha/beta sample analysis and associated quality assurance and data management tasks fast and efficient.

CANBERRA has been building low background alpha/beta counters for over 30 years. In that time, many software packages have come and gone, but power and ease of use are still dominant on the wish lists of users. CANBERRA’s Apex-Alpha/Beta software is a fresh approach to the application using current tools with no dependencies on outdated spreadsheets, yesterday’s database formats, or expensive third reporting tools.

The software is the culmination of everything CANBERRA has learned over the years about alpha/beta counting needs from the earliest DOS applications, all the way through CANBERRA’s Eclipse software. Apex-Alpha/Beta also draws heavily on our highly successful Apex-Gamma™ and Apex-Alpha™ software.