Non-destructive terahertz imaging of illicit drugs using spectral fingerprints

Optics Express

Volumn 11, Issue 20, 2003, Pages 2549-2554

  Kawase, Kodo ^a   Ogawa, Yuichi ^a   Watanabe, Yuuki ^a,b   Inoue, Hiroyuki ^c  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

^b YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF POLICE SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DRUG PRODUCTS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LUMINESCENCE; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SCANNING; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

FAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; IMAGE DETECTION SYSTEMS; PARAMETRIC PROCESSES;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 1842615258     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.11.002549     Document Type: Article

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