Brightfield image of a nickel-containing plasma sprayed coating, taken on an Olympus BX60 at 400X.	The same image after phase analysis using Olympus’ Discover software from Soft Imaging Systems.

The following table shows some of the data generated by the analysis.  Each separate region is shown with its individual area and the area of the entire image.  The final result shows that there is a total of 26.67% Ni within the area of the image.

Plasma Coating - Sample ID #1
Blob Ref	Total Area	ROI Area
Blob 30	16550	306081
Blob 3	11827	306081
Blob 12	9455	306081
Blob 17	4910	306081
Blob 58	4620	306081
Blob 0	3431	306081
Blob 69	3362	306081	Sum of all nickel	81643
Blob 68	3161	306081	Area of ROI	306081
Blob 41	2508	306081	% nickel in ROI	26.67%
Data & images courtesy of STURBRIDGE METALLURGICAL SERVICES INC