Depth-resolving THz imaging with tomosynthesis

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 9558-9570

  Sunaguchi, Naoki ^a   Sasaki, Yoshiaki ^b   Maikusa, Norihide ^a   Kawai, Mina ^a   Yuasa, Tetsuya ^a   Otani, Chiko ^b  

^a YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; TERAHERTZ WAVES; TOMOGRAPHY;

3D IMAGING TECHNIQUES; BACK-PROJECTION METHODS; DEPTH-RESOLVED; TEST SAMPLES; THZ IMAGING; THZ WAVES; TOMOSYNTHESIS;

TERAHERTZ WAVE DETECTORS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TERAHERTZ IMAGING;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LENSES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TERAHERTZ IMAGING;

EID: 66849091750     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.009558     Document Type: Article

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