ADAPTIVE DIGITAL SIGNAL-PROCESSING FOR X-RAY SPECTROMETRY

A real-time fully digital signal processing and analyzing system based on a new concept has been developed for high count rate high resolution spectrometry. The principle has been realized with digital filtering of the preamplifier output signals. The system's unique features are the maximum theoretically possible throughput rate with high resolution, and the adaptive noise filtering for nearly loss-free measurements. In adaptive mode the maximum output rate is about 20 times higher than in the case of the semi-Gaussian shaping, with low degradation of energy resolution. All parameters of the signal processor are software controllable. © 1990.