A novel 3D absorption correction method is proposed for 3D EDX-STEM tomography.
The absorption of X-rays along the path to the surface is calculated voxel-by-voxel.
The method is applied on highly absorbed X-rays emitted from a core/shell nanowire.
Absorption is shown to cause major artefacts in the reconstruction.
Using the absorption correction method, the reconstruction artefacts are greatly reduced.