Determination of wood grain direction from laser light scattering pattern

Optics and Lasers in Engineering

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 95-103

  Simonaho, Simo Pekka ^a   Palviainen, Jari ^a   Tolonen, Yrjö ^b   Silvennoinen, Raimo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b Faculty of Medicine   (Finland)

Author keywords

Diving angle; Laser light scattering; Wood grain direction

Indexed keywords

LIGHT SCATTERING; OPTICAL CORRELATION; SILVER; WOOD;

DIVING ANGLE;

LASER OPTICS;

EID: 0141838983     PISSN: 01438166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0143-8166(02)00144-6     Document Type: Article

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