Upgrading of an Electron Microprobe with a Digital Imaging System

该奖项为华盛顿大学地质科学系购买安装在电子显微探针上的图像分析系统提供了所需资金的一半。大学承诺提供收购所需的剩余资金。电子探针提供定量元素微量分析，空间分辨率为一微米。微探针的功能被地球科学学生和高级研究科学家用于火成岩和变质岩石学领域，以及地貌学和古生物学研究。华盛顿大学的考古学家、天文学家（研究陨石）和生物学家（研究硬物）也使用这个微型探针实验室进行各种各样的研究。数字成像系统将极大地促进他们所有的研究，通过提高观察元素的空间分布相对于样品形态的能力，并通过量化从数字化图像中选择的样品成分的大小，形状，数量和分布。＊＊＊

9303948 Evans This award provides one-half the funding necessary for the purchase of an image analysis system to be installed on the electron microprobe in the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Washington. The University is committed to providing the remaining funds needed for the acquisition. The electron microprobe provides quantitative elemental microanalysis with a spatial resolution of one micrometer. The capabilities of the microprobe are used by geoscience students and senior research scientists in the fields of igneous and metamorphic petrology, as well as for studies in geomorphology and paleontology. The microprobe lab is also used in a variety of studies by archeologists, astronomers (studying meteorites) and biologists (studying hard parts) at the University of Washington. The digital imaging system will greatly facilitate all of their studies by enhancing the ability to view the spatial distribution of elements with respect to sample morphology, and by quantifying the size, shape, amount and distribution of selected sample components from digitized images. ***