The invention relates to a method for detecting the content of a
pesticide in cereal by utilizing a terahertz time-domain
spectroscopy. The method comprises the following steps of
grinding and then tabletting a to-be-detected cereal sample to obtain a to-be-detected cereal tablet sample, testing the to-be-detected cereal tablet sample by directly adopting a terahertz time-domain
spectroscopy system, acquiring a terahertz area spectrum
signal to be used as a sample
signal, acquiring a terahertz time-domain spectrum
signal under a
nitrogen atmosphere as a reference signal, acquiring an absorptive coefficient spectrum of the to-be-detected cereal tablet sample, acquiring a characteristic
wave band of a target
pesticide, classifying the absorptive coefficient spectrum of the to-be-detected cereal tablet sample to a corrected set of sample absorptive coefficient spectrum and a
verification set of sample absorptive coefficient spectrum, establishing a quantitative analysis model by utilizing a partial least-squares regression method, and acquiring a quantitative detection value of each to-be-detected cereal sample. The method can truly and effectively detect the
pesticide residue in the cereal quantitatively, rapidly and accurately, and the prediction square
correlation coefficient (R2) of the quantitative analysis model reaches up to 0.9903.