Preliminary optoacoustic measurements of air pollution generated during laser cleaning of artworks

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5146, Issue , 2003, Pages 210-214

  Strzelec, Marek ^a   Marczak, Jan ^a   Koss, Andrzej ^b   Szambelan, Rafal ^b  

^a MILITARY UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b Akademia Sztuk Pieknych   (Poland)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Artworks; Laser cleaning; Photoacoustic spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; AIR POLLUTION; CLEANING; GASKETS; HAZARDS; IMPURITIES; LASER BEAMS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; PHOTOACOUSTIC SPECTROSCOPY; VAPORIZATION;

ARTWORKS; LASER CLEANING; PHOTOACOUSTIC SPECTROSCOPY (PAS);

LASER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 1242286538     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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