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These substances have similar chemical properties and are difficult to differentiate when one is against the background of the other using methods based on X-ray absorption. In the experiments, we used three pulsed X-ray sources with different maximum voltages. We performed modeling of the emission spectra and selection of the necessary energy bands due to X-ray absorbing filters: a positive effect was shown for dual-energy image processing when the function of converting X-ray radiation into a signal using the VIVIX-V 2323D detector was taken into account. As a result, a pulsed X-ray source with the pulse voltage of 330 kV was chosen for the contrast detection of beryl, with the content of 5\u20137% against the background of muscovite and the thickness up to 70 mm. Using this source and the developed mathematical algorithms, it is possible to obtain a band of low-energy radiation at the level of 70\u201380 keV, as well as high-energy radiation in the range of 180 keV. Methods based on the X-ray absorption can become both additional and independent methods for studying and monitoring membranes; these objects range from tens of nanometers to several micrometers in size.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s23094393","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,5,1]],"date-time":"2023-05-01T12:12:11Z","timestamp":1682943131000},"page":"4393","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["Dual-Energy Processing of X-ray Images of Beryl in Muscovite Obtained Using Pulsed X-ray Sources"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"23","author":[{"given":"Alexander","family":"Komarskiy","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Electrophysics, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Yekaterinburg 620016, Russia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Sergey","family":"Korzhenevskiy","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Electrophysics, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Yekaterinburg 620016, Russia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Andrey","family":"Ponomarev","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Electrophysics, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Yekaterinburg 620016, Russia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Alexander","family":"Chepusov","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Electrophysics, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Yekaterinburg 620016, Russia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,4,29]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1369","DOI":"10.1016\/0022-3697(64)90052-6","article-title":"Some properties of the visible luminescence exited in diamond by irradiation in the fundamental absorption edge","volume":"25","author":"Dean","year":"1964","journal-title":"J. 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