Research Article
Investigation of CPD and HMDS Sample Preparation Techniques for Cervical Cells in Developing Computer-Aided Screening System Based on FE-SEM/EDX
Table 1
Elemental composition of mapping EDX of six cervical samples based on CPD and HMDS techniques.
| Preparation techniques | Name of specimens | Elemental composition (weight %) | C | O | Al | Na | Ca | Si |
| Based on CPD technique | Specimen1 | 45.18 | 21.19 | 0.39 | 0.96 | 1.5 | nd | Specimen2 | 56.19 | 17.52 | nd | 0.43 | 0.57 | nd | Specimen3 | 35.35 | 19.09 | 4.81 | 0.29 | 3.39 | 5.66 | Specimen4 | 43.1 | 18.46 | 0.67 | nd | nd | 1.64 | Specimen5 | 46.4 | 14.93 | nd | nd | nd | nd | Specimen6 | 45.81 | 13.47 | nd | 0.53 | nd | nd |
| Based on HMDS technique | Specimen1 | 53.76 | 23.36 | 0.19 | nd | 1.18 | nd | Specimen2 | 71.63 | 23.53 | 0.37 | 0.41 | 0.45 | 1.83 | Specimen3 | 63.9 | 19.4 | nd | nd | 0.41 | nd | Specimen4 | 46.08 | 41.31 | 4.77 | 0.14 | 0.3 | 5.39 | Specimen5 | 67.83 | 26.62 | nd | nd | 0.51 | 0.21 | Specimen6 | 67.81 | 15.35 | nd | nd | nd | nd |
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