Due to the physical constraints of X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) scanners, all but the shortest sedimentary cores are typically scanned in a piecewise fashion. Pieces are either extracted a section at a time (e.g. Russian peat corer) or are cut and sectioned after extraction (e.g. piston and gravity cores). The XRF core scanner generates an optical line-scan image, an X-ray radiograph, and a table of downcore variations in elemental composition. The subsequent processes of digitally joining the individual section scans so that they correspond to the original core is typically done in an ad-hoc manner with little visual feedback. Manual manipulation of composition tables while maintaining proper alignment with the optical scans is error prone and slow. As a result, image data are typically either discarded or used as a rough reference. This means a potentially valuable data source is normally lost. Corascope is a first-pass data reconstruction tool for the Itrax XRF scanner that aims to streamline data merging before doing any analysis. Immediate visual feedback is provided during the cropping and merging of core sections; it automatically preserves optical and elemental data alignment. It further provides a statistically-guided set of tools for adjusting overlapping core sections. These allow users to go from several overlapped cores to one merged virtual core. This virtual core then provides a reconstruction of the sedimentary record as one continuous piece. In line with the goal of being a first-pass tool, Corascope leaves all data values unperturbed and merged core data are returned in the same format as generated by the Itrax XRF scanner. This ensures that preexisting analysis software and laboratory procedures can continue to work on preprocessed data.

由于 X 射线荧光 (XRF) 扫描仪的物理限制，除最短的沉积岩心外，所有岩心通常都以分段方式进行扫描。碎片要么一次提取一段（例如俄罗斯泥炭取芯器），要么在提取后切割和切片（例如活塞和重力取芯）。XRF 岩心扫描仪生成光学线扫描图像、X 射线 X 射线照片和元素组成的下芯变化表。随后的数字连接各个部分扫描的过程，以便它们与原始核心相对应，通常以特别的方式完成，几乎没有视觉反馈。在保持与光学扫描正确对齐的同时手动操作合成表容易出错且速度缓慢。结果，图像数据通常被丢弃或用作粗略参考。这意味着通常会丢失具有潜在价值的数据源。Corascope 是 Itrax XRF 扫描仪的首通数据重建工具，旨在在进行任何分析之前简化数据合并。在裁剪和合并核心部分期间提供即时视觉反馈；它会自动保留光学和元素数据对齐。它还提供了一组用于调整重叠核心部分的统计指导工具。这些允许用户从几个重叠的核心转到一个合并的虚拟核心。然后，该虚拟岩心将沉积记录重建为一个连续的片段。为了成为首通工具的目标，Corascope 使所有数据值不受干扰，合并后的核心数据以与 Itrax XRF 扫描仪生成的格式相同的格式返回。