Phenom ELID format#
The .elid file format is used by the software package Element Identification for the Thermo
Fisher Scientific Phenom desktop SEMs. It is a proprietary binary format which can contain
images, single EDS spectra, 1D line scan EDS spectra and 2D EDS spectrum maps. The reader
will convert all signals and its metadata into dictionaries according to the
RosettaSciIO API.
The current implementation supports .elid files created with Element Identification version
3.8.0 and later. You can convert older .elid files by loading the file into a recent Element
Identification release and then save the .elid file into the newer file format.
API functions#
- rsciio.phenom.file_reader(filename, lazy=False)#
Read a Phenom
.elidfile from the software Element Identification (>v3.8.0) used by the Thermo Fisher Scientific Phenom desktop SEMs.- Parameters:
- filename
str,pathlib.Path Filename of the file to read or corresponding pathlib.Path.
- lazybool, default=False
Lazy loading is not supported.
- filename
- Returns:
listofdictList of dictionaries containing the following fields:
‘data’ – multidimensional
numpy.ndarrayordask.array.Array‘axes’ – list of dictionaries describing the axes containing the fields ‘name’, ‘units’, ‘index_in_array’, and either ‘size’, ‘offset’, and ‘scale’ or a numpy array ‘axis’ containing the full axes vector
‘metadata’ – dictionary containing the parsed metadata
‘original_metadata’ – dictionary containing the full metadata tree from the input file
When the file contains several datasets, each dataset will be loaded as separate dictionary.