1st Edition

Nondestructive Food Evaluation Techniques to Analyze Properties and Quality

By Sundaram Gunasekaran Copyright 2001

    This volume illustrates significant changes in optical, magnetic, ultrasonic, mechanical and biological nondestructive evaluation techniques for online automatic control of food quality evaluation, including X-ray tomography. It presents advances in computer vision, X-ray imaging, ultrasonics, biosensors, and data analysis.

    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.

    Biography

    Sundaram Gunasekaran

    "...provides a very good review and up-to-date discussion of the optical, magnetic, ultrasonic, mechanical and biological methods of food quality evaluation.... ...well organized and clearly presented...a good reference book."
    ---Perishables Handling Quarterly, 2001