Figure 1
Application of 0.2 abridging threshold: (A) representative Gaussian function demonstrating the use of a 0.2 (20%) threshold (blue line) resulting in all channels not between a1 and a2 being discarded. Similarly, (B) shows the retention of values for both equations for the overlapping modified Gaussians for the K lines of K and Ca. For both equations, all channels between b1 and b2 and c1 and c2 are retained; the portion of the K Kβ overlapping with the channels identified by the Ca Kα peak is retained; (inset) likewise, the low-energy Ca tail which overlaps with the channels identified by the K Kα peak is also retained. The y-axis units for (A) and (B) are counts normalized to a unit area of 1. (C) shows application of a 0.02 (2%) threshold to the parameterized equations for K emissions of Si, P, S, Ar, K, Ca, Mn, Fe, Co, Cu, Zn, and Se, as well as Compton (inelastic) and elastic scatter. The summation of all the parameterized equations is at the bottom. (D) The integrated spectra from the Astragalus peel (Fig. 4) along with the blank and corrected spectrum. (E) The same spectra as (D) with the discarded or rejected regions shaded in gray. |