Passive millimetre-wave imaging and how it differs from terahertz imaging

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 362, Issue 1815, 2004, Pages 379-393

  Appleby, R ^a   Hu, Q ^b   Parini, C ^c   Roskos, H ^d   Dyer, A ^e   Smith, G ^f   Unterrainer, K ^g  

^a QINETIQ   (United Kingdom)

^b USA   (United States)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e University of St Andrews ^*

^f UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^g VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Imaging; Millimetre; Passive; Terahertz

Indexed keywords

EID: 1042279368     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2003.1323     Document Type: Article

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