| Acronym | Meaning |
| MPPSIRD | Mass Peak Profiling From Selected Ion Recording Data |
| TBEH | Tight-binding Extended Hueckel (extended Hueckel Tight-binding) |
| SCTB | Self-consistent Tight-binding (in Electronic Structure) |
| CBOX | Coulomb-Born With No Exchange |
| SCA | Semiclassical Coulomb Approximation |
| CPMC-SCF | Coupled Perturbed Multiconfigurational SCF |
| TSEE | Thermally Stimulated Exoelectron Emission |
| ADF | Acid Detergent Fiber |
| DRF | Dose Reduction Factor |
| LAER | Lowest Achievable Emission Rate |