8 Sep
2011
8 Sep
'11
2:12 p.m.
Niken, Have you compared MBACK to using the 'CLnorm' normalization in Athena (found under "Background Removal Additional Parameters")? The algorithms are not identical, but have a lot in common, and would probably make it easier to compare with other data in Athena. If I understand correctly, your sulfur spectra were not collected in fluorescence with a solid-state detector, so that part of what MBACK is really good at doesn't apply, and the CLnorm normalization is pretty close to other part of MBACK. I'd be interested to know if you or anyone else has done a careful study comparing MBACK, CLnorm, and other normalization procedures. --Matt