Three-dimensional broadband terahertz synthetic aperture imaging

Optical Engineering

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Henry, Samuel C ^a   Zurk, Lisa M ^a   Schecklman, Scott ^a   Duncan, Donald D ^a  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Explosives detection; Nondestructive evaluation; Spectroscopy; Synthetic aperture radar; Tetrahertz imaging

Indexed keywords

3-D IMAGE; BROADBAND TERAHERTZ; DEPTH RESOLUTION; FREQUENCY-AVERAGING TECHNIQUE; HIDDEN OBJECTS; NEAR-FIELD; NON DESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION; PHASE COHERENT; POTENTIAL METHODS; SIDE LOBES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE IMAGING; SYSTEM BANDWIDTH; TERAHERTZ TECHNOLOGY; TETRAHERTZ IMAGING; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D); THZ IMAGING; TRANSPARENT PROPERTIES;

BALL BEARINGS; ELECTRIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC FIELDS; EXPLOSIVES DETECTION; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; PACKAGING MATERIALS; SPECTROSCOPY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

THREE DIMENSIONAL; EXPLOSIVES DETECTION;

EID: 84870583142     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.OE.51.9.091603     Document Type: Article

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