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     ksharghi (nirmaniac11) New member Username: nirmaniac11 Post Number: 2 Registered: 6-2006 |
The book I started with was Handbook of Near-Infrared Analysis, Second Edition Revised by Donald Burns and Emil Ciurczak. It was very helpful as a beginning manual. | ||
| Jonathan Hoggatt (jhoggatt) New member Username: jhoggatt Post Number: 3 Registered: 6-2006 |
Thanks for the suggestions... I was aware of a few of the courses, and if I can swing that with management I certainly will. But, I was pretty sure I could get one book past management right now to get me started, hence my question. Thanks again. | ||
| Fridrik Thordarson (fthordarson) New member Username: fthordarson Post Number: 1 Registered: 6-2005 |
Jonathan, I would recommend "Near-Infrared Technology in the Agricultural and Food Industries" by Phil Williams and Karl Norris (editors) for getting started with NIR technology. And don't let the name fool you - this book has some very good chapters about all the general aspects of NIR and how to use it. I'm in the pharmaceutical industry myself and found this book a great help when I was entering the NIR world for the first time. I also strongly recommend having the "Handbook of Near-Infrared Analysis" by Donald A. Burns and Emil W. Ciurczak (editors). However, I feel that Williams' and Norris' book is easier for the purpose to get you started. Anyway, that's my experience. I believe both of these are good for future reference although "The Handbook" probably is by far wider ranging. I took the CFPA course that Howard is talking about a few weeks ago and I can only say that it was excellent and I learned a lot. But - when you go to a NIR course that is only three days long, it's bound to be intensive or else it won't cover much of all the important issues. And if you show up there knowing nothing or close to nothing at all about NIR from before I think the best you can hope for is getting quite confused. So my advice is read a good book on the subject and get a good basic understanding of it first and then take a course. That way the course will have a much greater value. Maybe I should mention that I have only been in this field for about sixteen months, so I guess I'm not the greatest expert on earth when it comes to the technology itself. On the other hand, I believe that in these few months I have become quite an expert in being a beginner and learning everything from scratch  | ||
| Howard Mark (hlmark) Senior Member Username: hlmark Post Number: 19 Registered: 9-2001 |
Jonathan - if you can't decide on an instrument, and you don't know what book to select to read, I think you're going to need more help than you can get out of any single book. At the very least, you should take a short course in NIR analysis. Fortunately for you, there's one that's going to be offered in August by the Center for Professional Advancement - check it out at http://www.cfpa.com. The next one that I'm aware of will be at FACSS: http://www.facss.org and then at EAS: http://www.eas.org Howard \o/ /_\ | ||
| Jonathan Hoggatt (jhoggatt) New member Username: jhoggatt Post Number: 2 Registered: 6-2006 |
If you had to choose one book on NIR techniques, spectral pre-treatment, and a general discussion on chemometrics applications and explanations in NIR, which book would you choose? |