Recall that we are installing a new SXFive FE probe here currently, and last week while I was at AGU, Thermo FSEs came to install the NSS. Apparently, I hadn't asked the right questions of the right people previously, and now have since learned that what some might call "advanced" features have eliminated some truly useful features that the "old" EDS systems had.
Following discussions with Julien at AGU and then looking thru the Forum, I have come to a realization that what I had "assumed" to be possible with the new probe, is apparently impossible. I had "assumed" that I could do all my mapping, particularly quant with MAN, in Probe Image, having "full" access to BOTH 5 WDS channels and as many EDS ones as I wanted (as I had with MicroImage). Now I learn that I cannot do that, as Thermo doesn't have the ROI outputs.
Yes, I can have Thermo upgrade me to input all 5 WDS channels into their software but to me that is a poor second to mapping with PI. I don't want NSS's limited/rigid/fixed size options for mapping area and I don't want to have to rescan over, etc, etc. Yes, I know Thermo can output their jpg x-ray maps (like they apparently can do with Ken's Jeol), but that is a poor second to having x-ray counts per pixel. And does nothing for MAN quant mapping.
A key problem is that I cannot have the elemental ROI counts for each pixel and then run the maps thru MAN to make fully quant images. Thus, whereas I should have been able to run on ONE pass 5 WDS channels for minor elements and say 6-7 EDS channels, now I have to run TWO passes over the same region to get only 10 elements, for MAN maps.
So as far as anyone know, is there no way to get discrete EDS channels out of thermo into PI? And this isn't something Thermo has any interest or abiilty to change?