Frequency-wavelet domain deconvolution for terahertz reflection imaging and spectroscopy

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1177-1190

  Chen, Yang ^a   Huang, Shengyang ^a   Pickwell MacPherson, Emma ^b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCH BRIDGES; BANDPASS FILTERS; CONVOLUTION; IMPULSE RESPONSE; REFLECTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

GAUSSIAN FILTERS; IMPULSE FUNCTION; IMPULSE RESPONSE FUNCTIONS; INVERSE FILTERING; LOW SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SPECTROSCOPIC PROPERTY; TERA HERTZ; WAVELET DOMAIN;

TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EQUIPMENT; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TERAHERTZ IMAGING; TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY;

ALGORITHMS; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TERAHERTZ IMAGING; TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 75249091763     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.001177     Document Type: Article

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