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Progress in X-Ray Fluorescence Correction Methods Using Scattered Radiation*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

K. K. Nielson
K. K. Nielson*
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Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratory Richland, Washington 99352
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This paper reviews x-ray fluorescence (XRF) matrix correction methods which use scattered radiation and discusses their typical analytical applications. It also discusses some of the underlying assumptions of these methods and thus provides a basis for estimating their merits and limitations in quantitative analytical applications.

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Advances in X-Ray Analysis , Volume 22: Twenty-Seventh Annual Conference on Applications of X-ray Analysis, August 1-4, 1978 , 1978 , pp. 303 - 315
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Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 1978

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This work supported by US DOE Contract EY-76-C-06-1830.

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