title: A general computational method for converting normal spectra into derivative spectra.
abstract: The mathematical problem of converting a normal spectrum into the corresponding first- and second-derivative spectra is formulated as an integral equation of the first kind. Tikhonov regularization is then applied to solve the spectral conversion problem. The end result is a set of linear algebraic equations that takes in as input the original spectrum and produces as output the second-derivative spectrum, which is then integrated to yield the first-derivative spectrum. Noise amplification is kept under control by adjusting the regularization parameter (guided by generalized cross-validation) in the algebraic equations. The performance of this procedure is demonstrated by applying it to different types of spectral data taken from the literature.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia. yly@unimelb.edu.au
authors.forename: Y Leong
authors.initials: YL
authors.lastname: Yeow
authors.forename: Y K
authors.initials: YK
authors.lastname: Leong
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003198:Computer Simulation; D008956:Models, Chemical; D015233:Models, Statistical; D009716:Numerical Analysis, Computer-Assisted; D013057:Spectrum Analysis / Q000379:methods*