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XMI-MSIM is an open source tool designed for the Monte Carlo based simulation of energy-dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectrometers. It comes with a fully functional graphical user interface in order to make it as user friendly as possible. Considerable effort has been taken to ensure easy installation on all major platforms.

Development of this package was part of my PhD thesis. The algorithms were inspired by the work of my promotor Prof. Laszlo Vincze of Ghent University. Links to his publications can be found in this manual.

A manuscript has been published in Spectrochimica Acta Part B that covers the algorithms that drive XMI-MSIM. Please include a reference to this publication in your own work if you decide to use XMI-MSIM for academic purposes.

A second manuscript was published that covers our XMI-MSIM based quantification plug-in for PyMca. Soon information on using this plug-in will be added to the manual.

XMI-MSIM is released under the terms of the GPLv3

Table of contents

• Download and installation instructions
• User guide
• The XMI-MSIM API: list of functions (under construction)
• References and additional resources