Hybrid imaging/mapping instrument

Mapping experiments in which the sample is moved in both x andy dimensions should not be properly called imaging, since the spectra have not been acquired by an array detector. However, the spectra that are obtained can be treated in exactly the same way as if these spectra had been acquired with an array detector. Commercially available hybrid mapping/imaging instruments have also been described in which a linear array of, say, 32 detectors is used to acquire a line map after which the sample is moved and the process is repeated. 

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