Digital optical measurement of particle populations using...

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2006-06-20

2006-06-20

Stafira, Michael P. (Department: 2877)

Optics: measuring and testing

For size of particles

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07064826

ABSTRACT:
The present invention relates to a method for determining a distribution of a parameter, e.g. cross-sectional area, of a particle population for identifying specific types of particles therein. A plurality of images of the particles are detected on a pixel array and a number of pixels in the form of a pixel count is determined for each of the plurality of images of particles. Weighting factors, e.g. a probability which relate values of the parameter to different pixel counts are used to determine the distribution for the parameter of the particle population. The method depends on the facts that the total population to be analyzed contains many particles and is uniformly distributed, over many frames, throughout the optical sampling volume, and that even when substantial uncertainty exists on the parameter value corresponding any individual image, the statistical information which is obtained from many images may be used to provide accurate distributions.

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Michael Schäfer, “Digital optics: Some Remarks on the Accuracy of Particle Image Analysis”, Part. Part. Syst. Charact. 19 (2002) pp. 158-168.

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