The New Maia Detector System: Methods For High Definition Trace Element Imaging Of Natural Material

• DOI: 10.1063/1.3399266
• Publication Date: 2010-04-16T22:23:05Z
• Authors: C. G. Ryan; D. P. Siddons; R. Kirkham; P. A. Dunn; A. Kuczewski; G. Moorhead; G. De Geronimo; D. J. Paterson; M. D. de Jonge; R. M. Hough; M. J. Lintern; D. L. Howard; P. Kappen; J. Cleverley; Melissa Denecke; Clive T. Walker
• Keywords: Trace element

Motivated by the need for megapixel high definition trace element imaging to capture intricate detail in natural material, together with faster acquisition and improved counting statistics elemental imaging, a large energy‐dispersive detector array called Maia has been developed CSIRO BNL SXRF on XFM beamline at Australian Synchrotron. A 96 prototype demonstrated capacity of system real‐time deconvolution complex spectral data using an embedded implementation Dynamic Analysis method acquiring highly detailed images up 77 M pixels spanning areas mineral sample sections.