NAME

       Xray::Absorption::Shaltout - Perl interface to the Shaltout tables

SYNOPSIS

          use Xray::Absorption;
          Xray::Absorption -> load("shaltout");

       See the documentation for Xray::Absorption for details.

DESCRIPTION

       This module is inherited by the Xray::Absorption module and provides access to the data
       contained in

         Update of photoelectric absorption coefficients in the tables of McMaster
         Abdallah Shaltout, Horst Ebel, and Robert Svagera
         X-Ray Spectrometry (2006) vol. 35, p. 52-56

       The data is contained in a database file called shaltout.db which is generated at install
       time from a flat text database of the data which can be found at
       <http://www.ifp.tuwien.ac.at/forschung/abdallah.shaltout/> as explained in the reference.

       The required Chemistry::Elements module is available from CPAN in the miscellaneous
       modules section.

EDGE AND LINE ENERGIES

       The Shaltout data resource includes all K, L, M, and N edges but does not provide any of
       the line energies.  An minimal set of line energies is imported from the McMaster data
       resource.

BUGS AND THINGS TO DO

       This module has not be tested sufficiently.

AUTHOR

         Bruce Ravel, bravel@bnl.gov
         http://cars9.uchicago.edu/~ravel/software/Absorption/