Fluorim: a Computer Program for the Automated Data Collection and Treatment Using Commercial Spectrofluorimeters

Abstract A general purpose program that uses a PC microcomputer has been designed for the control of experiments in fluorimetry. This program allows the digital collection of the main types of scans that a commercial spectrofluorimeter can perform: emission, excitation and synchronic; as well as the measurement of the fluorescent intensity as a function of time. The program also allows a series of operations with previously stored spectra. These operations include screen and paper plots of the spectra, calculation of linear combinations of them and the nine first derivatives, as well as their relative maxima and minima.

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