Author(s)

Cuiying Hu, Qingxia Meng, Qichang Pang, Ji Ma, Jing Zhao

College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China.
Department of Applied Physics, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China.
Department of Optoelectronic Engineering, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China.
Department of Physics, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China.

Five kinds of traditional flower Chinese medicine powders (TFCMD) were identified using tuneable liquid spectral imaging instrument, to discuss the application range and advantages of spectral imaging technology in Chinese medicine identification and analysis field. The testing system is the liquid crystal multispectral imaging system designed by ourselves. All the tests are standard samples supplied by National Institute for Drug Control. The spectral cubes of Campsis grandiflora, Carthamus tinctorius, Albizzia julibrissin, Dendranthema morifolium, and Dendranthema indicum were captured, and then the normalized characteristic spectral curves of them were picked up. The spectral resolution is 5 nm, and the spectral range is 400 nm - 650 nm. The result shows that different TFCMD has different normalized characteristic fluorescence spectral curve. Spectral imaging technology can be used to identify TFCMD, and the testing course is convenient, quick, noninvasive and without pre-treatment.

Spectral Imaging Technology; Rapid Identification; Chinese Medicine

C. Hu, Q. Meng, Q. Pang, J. Ma and J. Zhao, "Application of Multispectral Imaging Method in Rapid Identification and Analysis of Chinese Herbal Medicine Powders," Optics and Photonics Journal, Vol. 3 No. 2, 2013, pp. 147-151. doi: 10.4236/opj.2013.32024.