tactime - tpcclib 0.6.6 © 2016 by Turku PET Centre
Increase or decrease the sample (frame) times in regional or blood/plasma
TAC files.
Samples with negative times are not saved by default.
Time must be given in the same units that are used in the datafile.
Usage: tactime [Options] tacfile [-]time outputfile
Time can be given as positive or negative value directly in the command
line, or in an ASCII file which contains a line with the time change value
in the following format: 'time_difference := time'.
Alternatively, time specified in that file with 'Ta' or 'start_time' is
subtracted from sample times.
Options:
-decay
Physical decay correction is changed with change in sample times;
without this option, radioactivity values are not changed.
Note that this option will provide correct result only if time unit
setting in datafile is correct.
-i=<isotope>
If tacfile does not contain the isotope, then decay correction cannot
applied unless isotope is given with this option.
Accepted isotope codes are for example F-18, C-11, and O-15.
Isotope code can also be specified in input file in format
'# isotope := Isotope'.
-keepnegat
Samples with negative sample times are not removed from output.
-keeptimes
While correction for physical decay is changed with option -decay,
sample times will not be changed.
-nogap
Possible gap between time zero and first sample is filled.
-h, --help
Display usage information on standard output and exit.
-v, --version
Display version and compile information on standard output and exit.
-d[n], --debug[=n], --verbose[=n]
Set the level (n) of debugging messages and listings.
-q, --quiet
Suppress displaying normal results on standard output.
-s, --silent
Suppress displaying anything except errors.
See also: tacframe, dftdecay, egetstrt, injdifft, tacunit, fitdelay, taccut
Keywords: TAC, modelling, simulation, late scan, input, time delay