Passive Euro-American Terahertz Camera (PEAT-CAM): Passive indoors THz imaging at video rates for security applications

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6548, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Luukanen, Arttu ^a   Grönberg, Leif ^a   Helistö, Panu ^a   Penttilä, Jari S ^a   Seppä, Heikki ^a   Sipola, Hannu ^a   Dietlein, Charles R ^b,c   Grossman, Erich N ^b  

^a VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

Author keywords

Bolometer; Concealed weapons; Imaging; Millimeter wave; Terahertz; Ultrabroadband

Indexed keywords

CONCEALED WEAPONS; PASSIVE INDOORS; SUPERCONDUCTING ULTRAWIDEBAND ANTENNAS; THZ IMAGING;

ANTENNAS; BANDWIDTH; BOLOMETERS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; SECURITY OF DATA; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

CAMERAS;

EID: 35948946156     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.719778     Document Type: Conference Paper

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