Documentation

An introductory guide: ``FIT2D: An Intorduction and Overview'' is available as is a Reference Manual which covers in detail use of FIT2D. The reference manual is presently over 300 pages long and contains an extensive index. Users are not expected to read the manual completely, but to use it as a reference, using the index to find information on the necessary commands needs to perform a particular task. (The programs are hopefully self-evident and contain much on-line help information, but for more detailed explanation the reference manual will need to be consulted occasionally.)

A number of articles are available which cover in more detail the algorithms and methods employed within the program:

• A P Hammersley and C Riekel, ``MFIT: Multiple Spectra Fitting Program'', Syn. Rad. News, 2, 24-26, (1989)

• S O Svensson, A P Hammersley, A Thompson, A Gonzalez and T Ursby, ``Measurements and corrections of spatial distortions in imaging plate systems'', CCP4/EPS-EACBM Newsletter, 29, (1993)

• A P Hammersley, S O Svensson, and A Thompson, ``Calibration and correction of spatial distortions in 2D detector systems'', Nucl. Instr. Meth. Section A, 346, pp312-321 (1994)

• A P Hammersley, S O Svensson, A Thompson, H Graafsma, A Kvick, and J P Moy, ``Calibration and correction of distortions in 2D detector systems'', Rev. Sci. Instr., (SRI-94), 66, 2729-2733 (1995)

• A P Hammersley, S O Svensson, M Hanfland, A N Fitch, and D Häusermann, ``Two-Dimensional Detector Software: From Real Detector to Idealised Image or Two-Theta Scan'', High Pressure Research, 14, 235-248, (1996)

• J-P Moy, A P Hammersley, S O Svensson, A Thompson, K Brown, L Claustre, A Gonzalez, and S McSweeney, ``A Novel Technique for Accurate Intensity Calibration of Area X-ray Detectors at Almost Arbitrary Energy'', J Syn Rad, 3, 1-5 (1996)

• A P Hammersley, K Brown, W Burmeister, L Claustre, A Gonzalez, S McSweeney, E Mitchell, J-P Moy, S O Svensson, A Thompson, ``Monochromatic Protein Crystallography Data Collection Using an X-ray Image Intensifier/ CCD Detector'', J. Syn. Rad., 4, 67-77, (1997)