Bence A E & Albee A L. Empirical correction factors for the electron raicroanalysis of silicates and oxides. J. Geol. 76:382-403. 1968

The empirically observed linear relationship between relative x-ray intensity and relative concentration is the basis for a simplified approach to electron microprobe data reduction which is compatible with computer control of the x-ray spectrometers. Elementoxide matrix effects, predetermined using empirical and theoretical techniques, are concentration weighted in a polycomponent phase analysis. Successive iterations refine the matrix correction factor for each characteristic x-ray line measured. These correction factors define the relationship between relative x-ray intensity and relative concentration for each element. [The SCI indicates that this paper has been cited over 230 times since 1966.]