Genie VMS Systems: User Operation Course

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Prerequisites: SA-816-5 or equivalent experience.

Purpose: This course discusses how to use Genie, Genie Workstation, X:Genie, and/or Genie-ESP gamma spectroscopy systems to acquire, calibrate, and analyze spectral data, and to write simple automating procedures.

Description:
This course is intended for students with little or no previous experience with Genie spectroscopy systems.

It is a comprehensive introduction to integrated/networked MCAs and Genie VMS application software. An introduction to the VMS operating system is also provided. All of the basic spectroscopy analysis commands and utilities are discussed.

Note: For all on-site courses, the lesson plan is very flexible, depending on the optional software purchased and the background of the students. 

Upon successful completion of this course, the student should be able to edit spectral parameters; perform software calibrations; setup/control data acquisition; analyze/report the data; perform quality assurance operations; and generate spectral, efficiency, energy calibration, and QA plots. 

Course Content:

1. Introduction to Genie Systems

• Architecture overview
• Data storage concepts
• Basic display functions

2. VMS Overview

• Basic VMS concepts
• Interpreting system messages
• The VMS text editors
• File and directory concepts
• DCL symbols and data representation
• Logical names

3. Analyzer Control

• Calibration checks
• Rejecting/deleting results records
• Acquisition memory setup
• Acquisition control
• Storing/viewing spectral data

4. Spectral Parameter Editing

• Editing certificate files
• Editing nuclide libraries
• Editing spectral parameters
• Editing detector efficiencies
• Editing interference lists
• Moving spectral parameters

5. Software Calibrations

• Calibration parameters
• Calibration reports
• Calibration plots
• Efficiency comparisons

6. Data Analysis and Report Generation

• Standard analyses and related parameters
• Editing analysis sequences
• Executing pre-selected analyses
• Report generation techniques

7. Quality Assurance

• Data storage concepts
• Transferring data to a QA file
• Out-of-range tests
• QA reports
• Quality assurance parameters
• The quality assurance editors
• QA plots
• Acquisition devices

8. More Spectroscopy Applications

• Generating spectral plots
• Other data analysis commands
• Manipulating spectral data

Selected Optional Topics:

• Detection system setup

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