... This section will deal with obtaining photons within specified regions of an image. Available regions are: Annulus Box Circle Ellipse Field -- entire field Irregular region based on intensity of map... i.e. region defined by contour levels. ... The imcnts task in the xray-spatial package sums the source and background counts in specified regions, and subtracts one from the other properly normalized. ... imcnts* - Find counts in an extended region, after removing an embedded point source . ...