Dear all,
I still have a problem with my machine where spurious intensities (always 256, 512 or rarely 768 counts) show up randomly in my maps (on all 5 spectrometers, maybe the electronics are going "bad"?). This not only looks ugly but we are also doing a lot of quant maps to estimate bulk compositions, so they can skew the data quite a bit.
Does anyone know a good way to exclude the false data points in either CalcImage or Surfer or elsewhere (and re-import) to remove these pixels (my Thermosoftware has a magic "suppress hot pixels" button)? Maybe already has a Matlab script for this to run? Extra points for "filling in" the hot pixel with interpolated data or something similar.
I hope I can eventually figure out what the problem is but until then I would like to save the already acquired maps. Any help or suggestions are appreciated.
Thanks!