Software for TCSPC

Software for TCSPC

Software is an indispensable component of any experiment in science and technology. Becker & Hickl offer data acquisition, data analysis, and experiment control software for all their TCSPC systems and associated experiment control devices.

SPCM Data Acquisition Software runs the bh TCSPC and FLIM devices. By including most of the associated peripheral devices it allows the user to assemble complex measurement systems without the need of building experiment-specific software.

SPCImage is bh’s TCSPC / FLIM data analysis software. It is used in almost any classic TCSPC or FLIM systems.

The ‘TCSPC Package’ includes SPCM, SPCImage, and DLLs for users who need or cannot resist to develop their own measurement software.

Moreover, there is software for a variety of special TCSPC measurement and analysis tasks, such as ExpressFLIM, SPCDynamics, and Burst Analyser. For development of LabVIEW applications a LabVIEW library is available.

See all software packages available on the Becker & Hickl web site.

SPCM data acquisition software is provided free with all Becker & Hickl TCSPC modules and DPC-230 photon correlators. SPCM is 64-bit software for Windows for megapixel FLIM technology:

• Acquisition of FLIM images
• Online calculation and fit of FCS curves
• Online calculation of PCH, and MCS traces
• Configurable for different instrument configurations
• Easy change between different configurations
• Parallel operation of up to four SPC or DPC modules
• Online display of images and curves
• Full access to all functions of the boards
•  One software for all bh TCSPC modules
•  Page stepping
• Accumulation and autosave functions
• Oscilloscope mode
• Single and repeat mode
• Sequential modes
• Imaging modes
• Time tag mode
• Time tag imaging mode
• Integrated scanner control
• Interaction of scanner control with display cursors
• 2D and 3D display modes
• 3D Curve mode, colour-intensity mode
• Software gating of image display
• Display of multi-wavelength FLIM images
• 2D and 3D data processing functions
• Loading of predefined setups
• Saving, loading, and conversion of photon distributions,images, and time-tag data

SPCImage – NG (Next Generation) Analysis Software for FLIM, PLIM, Fluorescence and Phosphorescence Decay

• Combination of Time-Domain and Phasor Analysis
• Maximum-Likelihood Fit
• GPU Processing
• Calculation of FLIM Images within less than 1 second
• Single, Double, Triple-Exponential Models
• Incomplete-Decay Models
• Analysis of Single Decay Curves, FLIM Data and PLIM Data
• Calculation and Display of Lifetimes, Amplitudes, Fractional Intensities
• Calculation and Display of Ratios of Decay Parameters
• Calculation and Display of FRET Efficiencies
• One- and Two-Dimensional Histograms of Decay Parameters
• Batch Processing
• Export of Lifetime Data and Images