A sensitive optical polarimetric imaging technique for surface defects detection of aircraft turbine engines

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 216-222

  Giakos, G C ^a   Fraiwan, L ^a   Patnekar, N ^a   Sumrain, S ^a   Mertzios, G B ^b   Periyathamby, S ^a  

^a University of Akron   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

High contrast resolution; High signal to noise ratio (SNR); Optical imaging; Polarimetric detection; Polarimetry

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT ENGINES; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; OPTICAL DESIGN; POLARIMETERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

AIRCRAFT TURBINE ENGINES; HIGH CONTRAST RESOLUTION; OPTICAL POLARIMETRIC IMAGING TECHNIQUE; SURFACE DEFECTS DETECTION;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 0742286349     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2003.821497     Document Type: Article

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