The following is part of a message I sent directly to Rory Wilson a couple
of weeks ago, but I thought that it might contribute something to the
current discussion on flat plate geometry in the Inel PSD.
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With regard to the flat plate correction  - we also use flat plate geometry
(with fixed incident beam angle) with the INEL. The absorption correction is
different for the incident and diffracted beams and requires an additional
correction to the diffracted intensities. 
There is a recent paper by Toraya (J. Appl. Cryst, 26, 774-777, 1993) which
confirms that the correction of James (1967) is OK. That correction is :-
         Icorr = I * 2 / [1 + (sin(alpha) / sin(beta))]
where	alpha = the angle between the incident beam and the surface of the
sample and
	beta  = the angle between the diffracted beam and the surface of the sample.
and     2theta = alpha + beta
I have coded this correction into our Rietveld program (a modification of
the LHPM series of Hill and Howard) and tested it for a few phases. Since
the asymmetric sample presentation will affect intensity as a function of
angle, the thermal parameters should be a good measure of whether the
correction works or not. My recollection is that the thermal parameters for
corundum stayed near the reported values for a wide range of incident
(alpha) angles.
You should be able to insert this correction into your DBWS code (our LHPM
code was derived from an early version of DBW) without too many problems -
just remember to apply the correction to the calculated intensities, not to
the observed data.
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