A comparison of the potential of near-infrared, mid-infrared and Raman imaging, focusing on current as well as conceivable applications for chemical analysis in delicate natural and synthetic samples. This handbook and ready reference covers instrumentation for vibrational spectroscopic imaging, chemometric evaluation of spectroscopic images, and vibrational spectroscopic imaging in biology and medicine, as well as the chemical, pharmaceutical and food industries.

From the contents:
*Instrumentation for Vibrational Spectroscopic Imaging
*Chemometric Tools for Image Analysis
*Vibrational Spectroscopic Imaging in Biology and Medicine: (3D-)Imaging of Biomedical Samples, Hard Tissue, Soft Tissue and Single Cells
*Applications in Food and Agriculture: FT-IR Microspectroscopic Imaging and Near-Infrared Hyperspectral Imaging
*Vibrational Spectroscopic Imaging in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industry: ATR- NIR- and Raman-Imaging
*Developments in Methodology: Deep, Noninvasive Spectroscopy of Diffusely Scattering Media, Planar Array IR Spectroscopy, IR Microspectroscopy Using Synchrotron Radiation, Near-Field Methods for Nanometer Resolution and more.