Noninvasive detection of concealed explosives: Depth profiling through opaque plastics by time-resolved raman spectroscopy

Analytical Chemistry

Volumn 83, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 8517-8523

  Iping Petterson, Ingeborg E ^a   López López, María ^b   García Ruiz, Carmen ^b   Gooijer, Cees ^a   Buijs, Joost B ^a   Ariese, Freek ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 ,4-DINITROTOLUENE; 2 ,6-DINITROTOLUENE; AKARDITE II; ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; DETECTION OF EXPLOSIVES; DIFFUSE SCATTERING; DINITROTOLUENES; EXPLOSIVE MATERIALS; EXPLOSIVE MIXTURES; INTENSIFIED CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; NON-INVASIVE DETECTION; PICOSECONDS; PLASTIC PACKAGING MATERIALS; POLYMER MATERIALS; POLYOXYMETHYLENE; SCATTERING MATERIALS; TEMPORAL DISCRIMINATION; TIME-RESOLVED;

ACETAL RESINS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; DEPTH PROFILING; DETECTORS; EXPLOSIVES; EXPLOSIVES DETECTION; ISOMERS; POLYMERS; POLYSTYRENES; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENES; POLYVINYL CHLORIDES; PULSED LASERS; RAMAN SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; ULTRAFAST LASERS;

PACKAGING MATERIALS;

2,4 DINITROTOLUENE; 2,4-DINITROTOLUENE; 2,6 DINITROTOLUENE; 2,6-DINITROTOLUENE; EXPLOSIVE; NITROBENZENE DERIVATIVE; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY;

DINITROBENZENES; EXPLOSIVE AGENTS; POLYMERS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN;

EID: 81255175559     PISSN: 00032700     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ac2018102     Document Type: Article

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