I have a question for Cameca EPMA instrument lab managers that have a Bruker EDS detector on their SX100/SXFive instruments. My Cameca SX100 instrument at the University of Oregon actually has Thermo EDS detector (and Pathfinder software), so I am not a good resource for answering this question!
Generally Cameca provides Bruker Esprit EDS systems with their EPMA instruments, but in the past, Cameca used to supply Bruker EDS systems that were "stripped down" (at a lower cost), but with reduced functionality. However, beginning about 10 years ago, because many EPMA users in the US and other countries wanted more capabilities from their Bruker EDS systems (for example, the ability to acquire and process spectrum images where each pixel of an x-ray map contains a full EDS spectrum!), Cameca started providing the full Bruker Esprit software package to their EPMA customers.
I was under the impression that these more complete Bruker EDS systems were pretty universal for new Cameca instrument installations going forward, but then I was contacted by a colleague who found a relatively recent Cameca SXFive installation which apparently has a "stripped down" Bruker EDS system.
I'm not even completely sure what exactly is missing from these "stripped down" Bruker Esprit installations, but I suspect that they don't have, for instance, the spectrum imaging capabilities mentioned above.
If you have a Cameca EPMA instrument, do you have a stripped down version of the Bruker Esprit software, or do you have a full Bruker Esprit software package? Can anyone comment on these issues? I'm really curious how many of the these minimalist Bruker EDS systems are out there, especially on the current SXFive instruments.
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