10 Hardware of Near-Infrared Spectroscopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
Tsutomu Okura
11 Time-of-Flight Spectroscopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
Tetsuya Inagaki and Satoru Tsuchikawa
12 Method Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
Benoît Igne, Gary McGeorge, and Zhenqi Shi
Part IV Applications
13 Overview of Application of NIR Spectroscopy to Physical
Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
Mirosław A. Czarnecki, Krzysztof B. Bec , Justyna Grabska,
Thomas S. Hofer, and Yukihiro Ozaki
14 Application of NIR in Agriculture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331
Baeten Vincent and Pierre Dardenne
15 Applications: Food Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347
Marena Manley and Paul James Williams
16 Wooden Material and Environmental Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361
Te Ma, Satoru Tsuchikawa, and Tetsuya Inagaki
17 Information and Communication Technology in Agriculture . . . . . 381
Eizo Taira
18 Near-Infrared Spectroscopy in the Pharmaceutical Industry . . . . . 391
Benoît Igne and Emil W. Ciurczak
19 Bio-applications of NIR Spectroscopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413
Christian W. Huck
20 Medical Applications of NIR Spectroscopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437
Herbert Michael Heise
21 Applications of NIR Techniques in Polymer Coatings
and Synthetic Textiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475
Tom Scherzer
22 NIR Imaging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517
Daitaro Ishikawa, Mika Ishigaki, and Aoife Ann Gowen
23 Inline and Online Process Analytical Technology with an Outlook
for the Petrochemical Industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553
Rudolf W. Kessler and Waltraud Kessler
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