High throughput baggage scanning employing x-ray diffraction for accurate explosives detection

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5048, Issue , 2003, Pages 63-72

  Green, Michael C ^a   Partain, Larry D ^a  

^a VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CRYSTALLIZATION; EXPLOSIVES; GERMANIUM; PHOTONS; SCANNING; SINGLE CRYSTALS; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

EXPLOSIVES DETECTION;

NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION;

EID: 0242693986     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.484697     Document Type: Conference Paper

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