HDF file

Saves data in HDF binary file format. HDF is designed to store large amounts of data organized in convenient way. One HDF file can handle many single- or multi-dimensional tables. For every detector a single file with .h5 extension is written.

An example usage

Conversion is done using standard command:

convertmc HDF --many "*.bdo"

Assuming that we had “dose” detector output saved to dose0001.bdo, dose0002.bdo and dose0003.bdo, we should expect to get dose.h5 as an output file.

Data reconstruction

Data can be extracted from HDF file with following Python code:

import h5py

# reading data and attributes from HDF file
 with h5py.File('dose.h5', 'r') as hf:
     data = hf['data'][:]  # numpy array with data storage
     attr = dict(hf['data'].attrs.items())  # dictionary with metadata