[The digital processing of the images in x-ray microanalysis]

Image analysis of X-ray microanalytical maps of sodium, potassium, phosphorus, chloride and calcium was carried out on the IBAS image analysis system (OPTON, FRG). In the present work, algorithms were developed for getting a new semiquantitative information from the binary images of maps: the element profile on the chosen line, the isoconcentration mapping and the multiple elemental mapping. It is possible to get as many as eight different elemental maps on the same image (with 8-bit resolution of pixel) and to extract the pixels with element overlappings.