Terahertz heterodyne imager for biomedical applications

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5354, Issue , 2004, Pages 1-9

  Siegel, Peter H ^a   Dengler, Robert J ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY FLEXIBILITY; SIGNAL BEAMS; TERAHERTZ ENERGY; TIME DOMAIN SPECTROSCOPY (TDS);

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); DATA ACQUISITION; HETERODYNING; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PHASE MEASUREMENT; RADAR; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SUBMILLIMETER WAVES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TISSUE;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 3042639564     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.540027     Document Type: Conference Paper

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