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NCSXRF: A General Geometry Monte Carlo Simulation Code for EDXRF Analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

T. He ,
R. P. Gardner  and
K. Verghese
T. He
Affiliation:
Center for Engineering Applications of Radioisotopes Box 7909, North Carolina State University Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-7909
R. P. Gardner
Affiliation:
Center for Engineering Applications of Radioisotopes Box 7909, North Carolina State University Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-7909
K. Verghese
Affiliation:
Center for Engineering Applications of Radioisotopes Box 7909, North Carolina State University Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-7909
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EDXRF analysis is conveniently split into two parts: (1) the determination of X-ray intensities and (2) the determination of elemental amounts from X-ray intensities. For the first, most EDXRF analysis has been done by some method of integrating the essentially Gaussian distribution of observed full energy pulse heights. This might be done, for example, by least-square fitting of Gaussian distributions superimposed on a straight line or a quadratic background. Recently more elaborate shapes of the energy peaks also have been considered (Kennedy, 1990). After the X-ray intensities have been determined, interelement effects between the analyte element and other elements must be corrected for in order to obtain the elemental amounts from X-ray intensities. This correction can be done either by an empirical correction procedure as in the influence coefficient method which requires measurements on a number of standard samples to determine the required coefficients, or by theoretical calculation as in the fundamental parameters method which does not require standard samples.

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X. Mathematical Methods in X-Ray Spectrometry (XRS)
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Advances in X-Ray Analysis , Volume 35 , Issue B: First Pacific-International Congress on X-ray Analytical Methods (PICXAM). Fortieth Annual Conference on Applications of X-ray Analysis, August 7-16, 1991 , 1991 , pp. 727 - 736
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Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 1991

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