Terahertz imaging of biological tissue using a chirped probe pulse

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4591, Issue , 2001, Pages 172-184

  Ferguson, Bradley ^a,b,c   Wang, Shaohong ^a   Gray, Doug ^b,c   Abbott, Derek ^b   Zhang, X C ^a  

^a Research Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c Technology Park   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chirped pulse; Classification; Linear filter modelling; T ray imaging; Terahertz

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DATA PROCESSING; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MAGNETOELECTRIC EFFECTS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

TERAHERTZ IMAGING;

TISSUE;

EID: 0035768629     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.449147     Document Type: Article

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