SPCal in an spICP-MS calculator with an interactive GUI.

Both quadrupole and ToF data is supported, with native import from Nu Instruments and TOFWERK ICPs.

SPCal has basic data processing and export functions including:

• histograms and distribution fitting
• particle composition by heirachical clustering
• scatter plots and PCAs
• particle filtering by signal / mass / size

Windows executables are available for each release.

To install via pip first clone the repository then install as a local package.

git clone https://github.com/djdt/spcal
cd spcal
pip install -e .

The program can then be run from the command line. See the help for extended usage.

spcal --help

Documentation on usage, examples and a programming reference can be found at https://spcal.readthedocs.io.

• Lockwood, T. E.; Gonzalez de Vega, R.; Clases, D. An Interactive Python-Based Data Processing Platform for Single Particle and Single Cell ICP-MS. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry 2021, 36 (11), 2536–2544.