Biomedical applications of a real-time terahertz color scanner

Biomedical Optics Express

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 354-366

  Schirmer, Markus ^a   Fujio, Makoto ^a   Minami, Masaaki ^a   Miura, Jiro ^b   Araki, Tsutomu ^a   Yasui, Takeshi ^a,c  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY DENTAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BELT CONVEYORS; COLOR; INSPECTION; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; SPECTROSCOPY; TISSUE;

BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS; BIOMEDICAL FIELDS; COLOR SCANNERS; CONVEYOR BELTS; CRYSTALLINITIES; DENTAL TISSUES; DRYING PROCESS; HIGH POTENTIAL; HUMAN HAIR; HUMAN TEETHS; PHARMACEUTICAL TABLETS; POTENTIAL INDICATORS; SPECTRAL IMAGING; TERA HERTZ;

SCANNING;

EID: 77957598236     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21567085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/BOE.1.000354     Document Type: Article

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