Dr Bence Paul
April 9, 2019
iolite was designed from the beginning to be flexible. One example of flexibility is being able to create your own channels. For example, you may want to create a custom ratio channel, or perhaps you want to calculate a concentration based on the concentration of other elements. All of this is possible by adding to…
Dr Bence Paul
February 27, 2018
The iolite 2018 Imaging Summer School was held at the School of Earth Sciences, The University of Melbourne (the home of iolite) on February 15th and 16th. It was aimed at a very general audience, with a range of experience using LA-ICP-MS from PhD students just starting out to researchers with several years experience, and covered…
Dr Bence Paul
June 2, 2017
The guys from TOFWERK have recently just published an article in Spectroscopy on the combination of icp-TOF with LA-ICP-MS. I recommend it for those interested in advances in high-throughput/high-resolution imaging (including a ~2 x 1 mm image, measured at 5 µm resolution in just 80 minutes!) http://www.spectroscopyonline.com/laser-ablation-and-inductively-coupled-plasma-time-flight-mass-spectrometry-powerful-combination-hig iolite is working with TOFWERK on how to…
Dr Bence Paul
March 27, 2017
We have been receiving some enquiries about when iolite 4 will be released and what it will look like. Some people are concerned about buying iolite 3 only for iolite 4 to be released the next week and have to buy it as well. Hopefully this post will clear some of that up for you.…
Dr Bence Paul
July 27, 2016
A question that appears from time to time in iolite circles is how to report the 2SD instead of the default 2SE for each selection. This is something that we hope to automate in the future but, as is usually the case in iolite, the information is there, you just need to work out where…
Dr Bence Paul
November 19, 2015
Yes, we’ve finally released a new version of iolite, and with it comes a host of improvements and bug fixes since v3.1. Download it here. This latest release includes the beta version of Chad’s Common Pb U-Pb DRS that was presented at Goldschmidt this year. It is still a beta version, but feel free to…
Dr Bence Paul
November 17, 2015
Some users have asked us for a handy list of the keyboard shortcuts used for selection manipulation, so here’s a very basic one-pager! Any feedback greatly appreciated. One page iolite cheat sheet
Dr Bence Paul
September 7, 2015
Hi all, Just letting you know that the 2015 iolite workshop associated with the Goldschmidt conference in Prague is now fully sold out. Unfortunately, we weren’t able to secure a larger teaching space, so we sold out pretty quickly this year. But if you’re interested in arranging a custom iolite workshop, please contact us at…
Dr Bence Paul
July 7, 2015
Last week, we conducted an iolite workshop at QUT for around 20 participants. Experience levels ranged from absolute beginners to a few who have been using iolite for years. Luckily we were able to provide information for even the advanced users, as well as introducing some of the new features released in iolite v3.1. For…
Dr Bence Paul
November 9, 2014
Joe Petrus has just released a new version of VisualAge (VA) on his website (http://www.japetrus.net/va/). This release is designed to work with iolite 3 so that you can use the new version of iolite and keep crunching out those data. We (the iolite team) don’t manage the code for VA, so please contact Joe or…
