Characterization of laser cleaning of artworks

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 6507-6548

  Marczak, Jan ^a   Koss, Andrzej ^b   Targowski, Piotr ^c   Góra, Michalina ^c   Strzelec, Marek ^a   Sarzyński, Antoni ^a   Skrzeczanowski, Wojciech ^a   Ostrowski, Roman ^a   Rycyk, Antoni ^a  

^a MILITARY UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b Akademia Sztuk Pieknych   (Poland)

^c NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Artwork diagnostics; Laser cleaning; Laser spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MEASUREMENTS; ARTWORK DIAGNOSTICS; IMMEDIATE FEEDBACKS; LASER CLEANING; LASER SPECTROMETRY; OPTICAL COHERENT TOMOGRAPHY; PHYSICAL METHODS; SUPERFICIAL LAYERS;

LASER SPECTROSCOPY; SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

CLEANING;

EID: 70450153451     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s8106507     Document Type: Review

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