Materials window

This window lists all the materials of the current model. To display this window select Window | Materials from the menu bar.

From this view you can:

• create, edit and delete material and radionuclides;
• edit properties of material/radionuclides

By default, this window is divided into five labeled columns indicating material properties: Name, Enabled, Half life, Half life unit and Unit. More properties and options can be made available by clicking the button and selecting the desired property from the menu that appears.

Empty	Displays an error symbol for materials that are missing values or contain errors. You can double click this column to edit a material.
Name	The name of the material.
Enabled	Enables or disables the material. Disabled materials are not included in simulations.
Description	A description of the material
Half life	Only applies to radionuclides.
Half life unit	Only applies to radionuclides. The time unit to display the radionuclide half life in.
Unit	For radionuclides, the only available units are Mole and Bq. The decay unit must be the same for all radionuclides. The unit of a material will affect the unit of transfer and compartment blocks.
Element	Only applies to radionuclides. The atomic element of the radionuclide.
Atomic number	Only applies to radionuclides.
Mass number	Only applies to radionuclides.
Author	The "author" of the material
Full name	The full name of the material. For the material "H" the full name would be "Hydrogen"

Title bar

The title bar has short-cuts for common tasks:

	Creates a generic material.
	Adds a radionuclide to the model from the radionuclide database. Note that radionuclide chains must be added from the radionuclide database
	Opens a dialog window that lets you edit the selected material
	Deletes all selected materials from the model.

Menu

To display the menu, right click anywhere inside the window.

Create	Lets you create a new material or radionuclide.
Edit...	Opens an edit dialog window for the selected material.
Enable	Enable all selected materials.
Disable	Disable all selected materials.
Find...	Lets you search for text appearing in the table.
Select all	Select all materials in the table
Delete	Deletes all selected materials from the model.

See also

• Data transfer - Cut n’ paste, Drag n’ drop