EFFTRAN is coded in Fortran 77 and runs on the Windows platform through an MS Excel interface written in Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). It is available free of charge and comes complete with the source code.
The user is expected to be familiar with the efficiency transfer method in gamma-ray spectrometry and the application of true coincidence summing corrections.
Application of EFFTRAN is limited to coaxial and planar detectors and to cylindrical samples. A separate version called MEFFTRAN exists for dealing with Marinelli beakers.
HPGe, NaI, LaBr3, CZT and CLYC detectors are supported. Gamma-gamma and gamma-X coincidences are taken into account and the correction factors for gamma rays are provided.
Efficiencies can be read from and written to Genie2k calibration files (.CAL) and GammaVision efficiency files (.EFT), and true coincidence summing correction factors can be exported to Genie2k nuclide libraries (.NLB), Genie2k certificate files (.CFT), and GammaVision nuclide libraries (.Lib).
A new version of EFFTRAN should always be installed into a new directory and not over an existing version and then all the materials and all the detector and source models in use should be redefined. We apologise for this inconvenience, but there is no other way of guaranteeing that the new version would work correctly.
EFFTRAN uses an embedded copy of the XCOM package (Berger and Hubbel, 1987) as a source of the cross-section data on photon interactions. The KORDATEN database (Arnold and Sima, 2004) serves as a source of nuclear decay data.
To download the latest version of EFFTRAN (currently 4.7.1) follow this link. Click here for a copy of MEFFTRAN (currently version 1.6).
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