Particle & Particle Systems Characterization, Vol.17, No.5-6, 195-205, 2000
Shape and size determination by laser diffraction: Feasibility of data analysis by physical modeling
The feasibility of the inversion of laser diffraction data for size and shape distributions by a constrained regularization method (Contin) has been investigated by computer simulation. Diffraction data are simulated for particles with elliptical projections. An iterative procedure is proposed to calculate the size and shape distribution. This method was able to recover both the size and shape distribution from simulated diffraction patterns of elliptical particles with different sizes and aspect ratios.