A review of optical NDT technologies

Sensors

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 7773-7798

  Zhu, Yong Kai ^a   Tian, Gui Yun ^a,b   Lu, Rong Sheng ^c   Zhang, Hong ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c HEFEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Endoscopic; Infrared thermography; Optical non destructive testing (NDT); Speckle; Terahertz (THz) technology

Indexed keywords

GLASS FIBER;

ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INFRARED SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; INTERFEROMETRY; LASER; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; REVIEW; TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY;

ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INTERFEROMETRY; LASERS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED; TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 80052222368     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s110807773     Document Type: Review

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