title: Noise effect in an improved conjugate gradient algorithm to invert particle size distribution and the algorithm amendment.
abstract: In general, model-independent algorithms are sensitive to noise during laser particle size measurement. An improved conjugate gradient algorithm (ICGA) that can be used to invert particle size distribution (PSD) from diffraction data is presented. By use of the ICGA to invert simulated data with multiplicative or additive noise, we determined that additive noise is the main factor that induces distorted results. Thus the ICGA is amended by introduction of an iteration step-adjusting parameter and is used experimentally on simulated data and some samples. The experimental results show that the sensitivity of the ICGA to noise is reduced and the inverted results are in accord with the real PSD.
authors.affiliation: School of Mechanical Engineering, Hebei University of Technology, No. 8 Guangrong Road, Hongqiao District, Tianjin 300130, China. yj.wei@163.com
authors.forename: Yongjie
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wei
authors.forename: Baozhen
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Ge
authors.forename: Yaolin
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wei