Use of the Hough transform to determine the center of digitized X-ray diffraction patterns
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Dammer, Christoph; Leleux, Pol; Villers, Didier; Dosière, Marcel
- Source
- Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B; October 1997, Vol. 132 Issue: 1 p214-220, 7p
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- Language
- ISSN
- 0168583X
The use of area detector of X-ray diffraction yields digitized information. The position of the incident beam on such recorded images is needed with a high precision for a careful determination of the Bragg spacings. An application of the Hough transform is presented to obtain the coordinates of the center of the X-ray pattern with a good accuracy and without any important intervention of the operator.