Investigator Overview

investigator functions the amics investigator module is used to schedule samples for measurement define areas for measurement define the measurement properties record the focus position for each sample save the results to a defined folder evaluate modal results while measuring samples the main toolbar icons are displayed at the top the central screen displays a schematic of the sample holder and positions the bottom central area lists the scheduled sample/s and measurements properties for a particular measurement are presented in the right properties panel on the bottom right, two values represent the current x y position on the stage investigator window key concepts in investigative specimen holders the docid\ zblrsz ibrrmwj30jglc is the link between amics and the analytical tool and provides preconfigured specimen hole locations to accelerate setting up a new single or batch of measurements in most cases, during the amics installation process, the engineer will preload specimen holders purchased with the instrument investigator, but it is also easy to create new specimen holder layouts specimen type block type samples such as drill cores, rock fragments, and polished thin sections are solid and intact granulated samples have already undergone comminution and/or grinding steps to separate the sample into particles note! the type of sample selection is important as it will impact the type of calculation results available in the amics process particle calculations, such as liberation and locking, are only possible with a granulated sample type measurements amics is a highly flexible toolbox, allowing users to find preconfigured measurement settings for most use cases and adjust these base models to refine them specifically for analytical requirements however, to continue expanding amics' base capabilities, the latest version of amics investigator has increased the number of basic predefined analytical methods a quick summary of the original and new measurement methods includes segmentation mapping, previously referred to as particle mapping, will use the original method to segment the bse images and perform an x ray analysis at the center of each segment matrix mapping uses the bse thresholding to identify particles and perform a gridded point analysis over the detected particle area line scan a new method for amics version 5 that performs a similar analysis to matrix mapping; however, it allows a different spacing for the x and y axes hypermap same analytical method used by the bruker m4 microxrf, allowing the sem to raster scan lines of the same it results in data similar to matrix mapping, but it can be faster depending on the use case rare phase search—previously referred to as bright phase search, this allows a bse range to be set, which triggers x ray analysis it is mainly used for sparse phase searching and reducing the total analytical time image mosic, previously referred to as bse mapping, will set the connected hardware to only collect video data (e g , bse, se, or uvd) over the selected area workflow in the previous version of amics, before a measurement could be started, each sample had to have a classification method associated with it the classification method is used to pre process the data during analysis to infer the materials detected in the specimen however, since version 5, there is no longer a need to assign a classification method before analysis, except when using segment triggers for segment mapping mode the classification method was previously referred to as oretypes, but as amics sees more applications for non geology applications, the name change was timely