File Format | PDF
File Size | 15.7 MB
Pages | 361
Language | English
Category | Chemistry
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Description: Food scientists
have many excellent tools at their disposal with which to study food at both
the micro- and macrostructural levels. But, when it comes to analyzing dynamic
structural changes in food during processing and storage, none can compare with
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Still a very young approach, MRI food imaging
has contributed greatly to recent advances in food science, and promises to
yield much more valuable information in the years ahead. Written by a leading
pioneer in the field, Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Food Science covers the
latest in MRI food imaging theory and practice.
Written
primarily for food scientists and engineers, the book offers a practical,
unified approach to the subject. Material is organized in three main parts
corresponding to the distances of scale probed by MRI studies-namely, the
macroscopic, microscopic, and macromolecular. Throughout, the emphasis is on
ways in which studies of food undergoing processes can be modeled using the
equations of heat, mass, and momentum transport, and how those models can be
used in process design optimization programs.
Magnetic Resonance
Imaging in Food Science provides researchers with the most up-to-date, detailed
coverage of:
* Traditional
and cutting-edge MRI food imaging techniques and technologies, including
STRAFI, gradient-echo imaging, and functional imaging
* Whole plant functional
imaging, flow imaging and rheology, and other specialized MRI applications
* The roles of
food microstructure and molecular relaxation mechanisms in controlling moisture
and heat transport
* Techniques for
modeling structural changes during food processing.
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Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Food Science