Spatially Offset Raman Spectroscopy (SORS) for liquid screening

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8189, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Loeffen, Paul W ^a   Maskall, Guy ^a   Bonthron, Stuart ^a   Bloomfield, Matthew ^a   Tombling, Craig ^a   Matousek, Pavel ^a,b  

^a Electron Building ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b Science and Technology Facilities Council   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aviation security; Homeland security; Liquid explosives; Raman spectroscopy; SORS

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED PROCESS; AVIATION SECURITY; CHEMICAL IDENTIFICATION; EXCITATION POINTS; FALSE ALARM RATE; HIGH PROBABILITY; HOME LAND SECURITY; LASER LIGHTS; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL METHOD; NON-METALLIC; OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPIC; PRIOR KNOWLEDGE; RAMAN SIGNAL; REFERENCE LIST; SECURITY APPLICATION; SORS; SPECTRAL INFORMATION;

ALARM SYSTEMS; AUTOMATION; AVIATION; CHEMICAL DETECTION; CONTAINERS; GLASS; GLASS BOTTLES; LASER EXCITATION; LIQUIDS; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; RAMAN SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SECURITY OF DATA; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; TERRORISM;

AIRPORT SECURITY;

EID: 81155139172     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.898109     Document Type: Conference Paper

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