Analysis of pulsed THz imaging using optical character recognition

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 3-8

  Taylor, Zachary D ^a   Singh, Rahul S ^a   Brown, Elliott R ^a   Bjarnason, Jon E ^a   Hanson, Micah P ^a   Gossard, Arthur C ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Imaging; Photoconducting devices; Submillimeter wave imaging

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC INTENSITY; CHARACTER RECOGNITION; COPPER; COTTON FABRICS; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; FREQUENCY BANDS; GLASS FIBERS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING SYSTEMS; IONIZING RADIATION; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTOCONDUCTING DEVICES; SCHOTTKY BARRIER DIODES; SEMICONDUCTOR SWITCHES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SUBMILLIMETER WAVES; SWITCHES;

BEAM PATHS; FIBER GLASSES; IMAGE SIGNALS; IMAGING; OPERATIONAL FREQUENCIES; PHOTOCONDUCTIVE SWITCHES; SCHOTTKY DIODES; THZ IMAGES; THZ IMAGING;

IMAGE QUALITY;

EID: 57849098236     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2008.2007676     Document Type: Article

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