title: An improved transmutation method for quantitative determination of the components in multicomponent overlapping chromatograms.
abstract: An improved method is proposed for the quantitative determination of multicomponent overlapping chromatograms based on a known transmutation method. To overcome the main limitation of the transmutation method caused by the oscillation generated in the transmutation process, two techniques--wavelet transform smoothing and the cubic spline interpolation for reducing data points--were adopted, and a new criterion was also developed. By using the proposed algorithm, the oscillation can be suppressed effectively, and quantitative determination of the components in both the simulated and experimental overlapping chromatograms is successfully obtained.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China. xshao@ustc.edu.cn
authors.forename: Xueguang
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Shao
authors.forename: Zhengliang
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Chaoxiong
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ma