March 2014 – Looking At Nothing

Introspection

2014-03-31 Brian 0

I’ve been working on a lot of things of late, but none are yet in a state to show here yet. However, when talking to […]

A measured, corrected and integrated curve (blue) from a GC calibration sample compared to its calibrated data (green)

Does it matter part 4.2: The actual flatfield

2014-03-24 Brian 2

Last week, I talked about how to determine whether a flatfield correction was necessary. Data from a Bruker Hi-Star detector was shown to have very […]

Detector deviation from the azimuthal mean; a first approximation at obtaining a flatfield image. Color scale clipped to -0.5, 0.5 (-50% and 50% deviation, respectively).

Does it matter part 4: flatfield correction on a Bruker HiStar wire detector

2014-03-17 Brian 2

See the previous posts in this series here: Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 Very recently, Bruker upgraded their SAXS instrument in our building. […]

Schematic overview of the considerations of the fancy background subtraction.

Fancy background subtraction: an initial look

2014-03-10 Brian 1

As indicated last week, some spare time has been spent trying to re-derive a correction for separating sample container scattering from the sample itself. Normally, […]

Cutting-room clippings

2014-03-03 Brian 0

For today’s post, I had a few things planned, but haven’t been able to work anything out yet. So I’ll talk a little about these […]

Looking At Nothing

A SA(X)S Weblog

Month: March 2014

Introspection

Does it matter part 4.2: The actual flatfield

Does it matter part 4: flatfield correction on a Bruker HiStar wire detector

Fancy background subtraction: an initial look

Cutting-room clippings