Rapid Classification of Simulated Street Drug Mixtures Using Raman Spectroscopy and Principal Component Analysis
Autor: | David B. Damiano, Kimberley A. Frederick, Lindsey A. Tonge, Kathryn Y. Noonan, Owen S. Fenton |
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Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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Normalization (statistics)
Drug Benzocaine media_common.quotation_subject Complex Mixtures Spectrum Analysis Raman Chemometrics symbols.namesake Light source Instrumentation Spectroscopy media_common Principal Component Analysis Chromatography Illicit Drugs Chemistry business.industry Lidocaine Pattern recognition Equipment Design Mean centering Principal component analysis symbols Artificial intelligence Raman spectroscopy business Algorithms Procaine Smoothing |
Zdroj: | Applied Spectroscopy. 63:742-747 |
ISSN: | 1943-3530 0003-7028 |
Popis: | The ability to accurately and noninvasively analyze illicit drugs is important for criminal investigations and prosecution. Current methods involve significant sample pretreatment and most are destructive. The goal of this work is to develop a method based on Raman spectroscopy to classify simulated street drug mixtures composed of one drug component and up to three cutting agents including those routinely found in confiscated illicit street drug mixtures. Spectra were collected on both a homebuilt instrument using a HeNe laser and on a handheld commercial instrument with a 785 nm light source. Mixtures were prepared with drug concentrations ranging from 10 to 100 percent. Optimal preprocessing for the data set included truncating, Savitzky–Golay smoothing, normalization, differentiating, and mean centering. Using principal component analysis (PCA), it was possible to resolve the spectral differences between benzocaine, lidocaine, isoxsuprine, and norephedrine and correctly classify them 100 percent of the time. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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