Application of OCT to examination of easel paintings

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5502, Issue , 2004, Pages 378-381

  Liang, Haida ^a   Cucu, Rada ^b   Dobre, George M ^b   Jackson, David A ^b   Pedro, Justin ^c   Pannell, Chris ^d   Saunders, David ^a   Podoleanu, Adrian Gh ^b  

^a National Gallery   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^c Ophthalmic Technologies Inc   (Canada)

^d Optronic Lab Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Antiquities; Art conservation; Low coherence interferometry; Optical coherence tomography

Indexed keywords

INFRARED RADIATION; INTERFEROMETRY; MICROSCOPES; PAINTING; RADIOGRAPHY; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY;

ART CONSERVATION; INFRARED REFLECTOGRAPHY; LOW COHERENCE INTERFEROMETRY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY;

COHERENT LIGHT;

EID: 5544328270     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.566780     Document Type: Conference Paper

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