“…Applications of chemical imaging can be found in a wide variety of industries and sciences, including methods to quantify the concentration and assess the distribution of chemical components within matrices of pharmaceutical (Amigo and Ravn 2009;Cairos et al 2009;Gendrin, Roggo, and Collet 2008;Gerich, Dubois, and Kidder 2010;Lopes and Wolff 2009;Maurer and Leuenberger 2009), biomedical (Kalasinsky and Lewis 2004;Lee et al 2010;Li et al 2009), and polymer science (De Biasio et al 2010;Furukawa et al 2007;Gosselin, Rodrigue, and Duchesne 2008;Gosselin et al 2009) origin. For such an analysis, a spectrum is collected at each pixel location of the image and the chemical composition is determined for each pixel from an analysis of the resulting spectrum.…”