Non-destructive Food Evaluation, Techniques to Analyze Properties and Quality

440 pages, illustrated  ISBN 0824704533      £107.00

This book describes optical, magnetic, ultrasonic, mechanical, and biological nondestructive evaluation techniques for online automatic control of food quality evaluation, including x-ray tomography. It presents current advances in computer vision, x-ray imaging, ultrasonics, biosensors, and data analysis.

Contents

• Optical methods - visible, NIR, and FTIR spectroscopy;
• computer vision;
• DLE and fluorescence;
• X-ray imaging;
• nuclear magnetic resonance techniques;
• ultrasonics;
• firmness measurement methods;
• linear viscoelastic methods;
• biosensors;
• data analysis and control.