Optical detection of chemical warfare agents and toxic industrial chemicals: Simulation

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 97, Issue 11, 2005, Pages

  Webber, Michael E ^a   Pushkarsky, Michael ^a   Patel, C Kumar N ^a,b  

^a Pranalytica Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS; LASER PHOTOACOUSTIC SPECTROSCOPY (L-PAS); OPTICAL TECHNIQUES; PROBABILITY OF FALSE NEGATIVES (PFN);

ACOUSTIC NOISE; CHEMICAL WARFARE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; OPTICAL SENSORS; PHOTOACOUSTIC SPECTROSCOPY; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS; TOXIC MATERIALS;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 20544469426     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1900931     Document Type: Article

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