Particle Property Window

introduction the particle property window in amics process allows the user to quickly access details on each object acquired by amics investigator the function can be used for both block and granulated type samples and matrix mapping, segmentation mapping, bright phase search, and hyper mapping type measurements the information provided by this function included data about the physical coordinate location of each object and a measure of the height, width, area, weight percent, average density, number of materials, and shape factor this function also provides details on the elemental composition of the object, as well as extracting an image of the object for quick reference if the function is used on an online system, it is also possible to drive the analytical device back to the object for further review by the user usage guide step by step instructions the particle property window is very easy to use as it is more of an information window, as a pose to being a data reduction/processing function the first step in using this function is to select which data layer to display by the function, as having the system in the segment, grain, or particle layer will affect the results the function will display the data layer can be selected from the main menu ribbon as shown in the figure below in the case of matrix mapping or hyper mapping measurement types, the segment and grain layer are the same, with each pixel being both a segment and a grain while these two measurement types typically do not have a particle layer to make grain and particle layers possible for these types of measurements, they will need to be converted to segment mapping type by following the particulate https //app archbee com/docs/ulnx6skegc8ehmpkog5xe/qd914crcf9eazwrg3svpc process once the appropriate layer has been selected, the particle property window can be accessed by pressing the " prop " button in the " tools " section of the main menu ribbon there are two sub option associated with the particle property window function, with the default option being to process and " show all particle properties " however, it is also possible for the user to select a subset number of objects, and for particle property to only process and " show selected particle properties " this can help reduce the memory and processor requirement for samples containing a large number of particles or to focus only on a subset of objects of interest regardless of the selected option, once the particle property function is selected, a new pop up window interface is opened due to the large amount of data being displayed in this window, in most cases, the column headings will be very narrow making it hard to read the headings this can be resolved by hovering over the column break and resizing the column of interest the heading titles have been added as an overlay on the above example for clarity the tabulated data can be sorted based on each column, but clicking on the column by which the data should be sorted once the tabulated data has been sorted by a column, a small arrow will appear next to the column heading, with the arrow also indicating if the table has been sorted in ascending or descending order based on the selected column each object can then be viewed in more detail by clicking on it in the table, which will bring up more detail about that object in the right hand side window, which includes a larger image of the object, as well as details on its material composition as well as textural and spatial data individual objects can then be selected for further processing, but highlighting the object of interest, and clicking the "selected" check box in the top right hand corner additionally, the "mark" option in the top left hand corner will allow the user to highlight on the original main amics process interface the location of the selected object while if run when online and connected to the acquisition tool, the "drive to" option will move the stage back to the x y location for further analysis finally, data about the objects can be exported as a table, by right clicking on the table, which will bring up three sub options, as shown in the example below the first option, "copy" will copy all the tabulated data into the clipboard, which can then be pasted as a tab delimited format the second option will allow for the copying of a single selected row of data, also in tab delimited format while the final option will remove any column sorting that might have been applied by the user access requirements a valid license with amics offline or amics online