References and additional resources

XMI-MSIM is the successor to the msim program of Prof. Laszlo Vincze of Ghent University. Together we have published six papers over a course of 20 years that cover our work on Monte Carlo simulations of ED-XRF spectrometers.

Papers by Laszlo Vincze et al.

• A General Monte-Carlo Simulation of Energy-Dispersive X-ray-Fluorescence Spectrometers Part 1. Unpolarized Radiation, Homogeneous Samples. Laszlo Vincze, Koen Janssens and Freddy Adams. Spectrochimica Acta Part B, 48(4), 553-573, 1993. DOI
• A General Monte-Carlo Simulation of Energy-Dispersive X-ray-Fluorescence Spectrometers Part 2. Polarized monochromatic radiation, homegeneous samples. Laszlo Vincze, Koen Janssens, Fred Adams, M.L. Rivers and K.W. Jones. Spectrochimica Acta Part B, 50(2), 127-147, 1995. DOI
• A General Monte-Carlo Simulation of Energy-Dispersive X-ray-Fluorescence Spectrometers Part 3. Polarized polychromatic radiation, homogeneous samples. Laszlo Vincze, Koen Janssens, Fred Adams and K.W. Jones. Spectrochimica Acta Part B, 50(12), 1481-1500, 1995. DOI
• A General Monte-Carlo Simulation of Energy-Dispersive X-ray-Fluorescence Spectrometers Part 4. Photon scattering at high X-ray energies. Laszlo Vincze, Koen Janssens, Bart Vekemans and Fred Adams. Spectrochimica Acta Part B, 54(12), 1711-1722, 1999. DOI

Papers by Tom Schoonjans et al.

• A General Monte-Carlo Simulation of Energy-Dispersive X-ray-Fluorescence Spectrometers Part 5. Polarized radiation, stratified samples, cascade effects, M-lines. Tom Schoonjans, Laszlo Vincze, Vicente Armando Solé, Manuel Sanchez del Rio, Philip Brondeel, Geert Silversmit, Karen Appel, Claudio Ferrero. Spectrochimica Acta Part B, 70, 10-23, 2012. DOI
• A General Monte-Carlo Simulation of Energy-Dispersive X-ray-Fluorescence Spectrometers Part 6. Quantification through iterative simulations. Tom Schoonjans, Laszlo Vincze, Vicente Armando Solé, Manuel Sanchez del Rio, Karen Appel, Claudio Ferrero. Spectrochimica Acta Part B, 82, 36-41, 2013. DOI

Posters by Tom Schoonjans et al.

• A general Monte Carlo simulation of ED-XRF spectrometers. New developments. Tom Schoonjans, V. Armando Solé, Manuel Sanchez del Rio, Claudio Ferrero and Laszlo Vincze. ICXOM 2011 conference, Campinas, Brazil. 5-8 September 2011.
• XMI-MSIM: A general Monte Carlo simulation of ED-XRF spectrometers. Tom Schoonjans, Laszlo Vincze, V. Armando Solé, Manuel Sanchez del Rio and Claudio Ferrero. European Conference on X-Ray Spectrometry, Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna, Italy, 15-20 June 2014
• XMI-MSIM: A general Monte Carlo simulation of ED-XRF spectrometers. Tom Schoonjans, Laszlo Vincze, V. Armando Solé, Manuel Sanchez del Rio and Claudio Ferrero. European Conference on X-Ray Spectrometry, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, 19-24 June 2016 PDF

Oral presentations by Tom Schoonjans et al.

• Quantification of ED-XRF datasets through iterative Monte Carlo simulations: new developments. Tom Schoonjans, Claudio Ferrero, V.Armando Solé, Manuel Sanchez del Rio, Geert Silversmit, Karen Appel and Laszlo Vincze. EXRS 2012 conference, Vienna, Austria. 18-22 June 2012.
• A general Monte Carlo simulation of energy-dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectrometers. Tom Schoonjans. Monte Carlo simulation tools for X-ray imaging and fluorescence workshop, ESRF, Grenoble, France, 24-25 February 2014. PDF
• An introduction to Monte Carlo Methods in XRF analysis and a tutorial on Monte Carlo methods in XRF analysis. Tom Schoonjans. Joint ICTP-IAEA School on Novel Experimental Methodologies for Synchrotron Radiation Applications in Nano-science and Environmental Monitoring, Trieste, Italy, 17-28 November 2014. Slides talk and slides tutorial
• A general Monte Carlo simulation of energy-dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectrometers. Tom Schoonjans. EXSA Workshop on Quantitative methods in X-Ray Spectrometry, Berlin, Germany, 11-12 October 2017.