A nuclear microprobe at the IFJ PAN in Cracow has found numerous applications in different fields of research, mostly in biophysics, medical sciences, geology, and material research. In order to extend the research possibilities, a new X-ray microprobe was constructed. This new microprobe consists of three experimental lines dedicated to: (i) X-ray irradiation of biological specimens, (ii) elem...

Imaging the morphology of the tissue in vivo and producing the correspondent elemental maps, whether in major, minor, or trace concentrations in real-time can be done using a focused beam of accelerated particles. This can be accomplished using different ion beam techniques simultaneously such as Scanning transmission ion microscopy (STIM), secondary electron imaging (SEI), Rutherford backscatt...

Monazite grains from Nepal and Vietnam were compositionally analyzed with an electron microprobe and dated (Th–Pb) with an ion microprobe. Five sources of uncertainty explain age distributions from single samples that appear inconsistent with a single population: (1) Pb loss due to diffusion, (2) dissolution/reprecipitation reactions along a retrograde path, (3) analytical uncertainties, (4) an...

ten chromite ores from ophiolite complexes in se iran were analyzed mineralogically by xrd, chemically by xrf, and mineral chemistry by epma. the identified paragenesis of silicate minerals of chromite ores with the x-ray diffraction is pronounced differently. it consists of secondary phases formed as serpentine, cr-containing chlorite (kaemmererite), chromic garnet (uarovite) with preserved pa...