Fast three-dimensional terahertz computed tomography using real-time line projection of intense terahertz pulse

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 2423-2433

  Jewariya, Mukesh ^a   Abraham, Emmanuel ^b   Kitaguchi, Takayuki ^a   Ohgi, Yoshiyuki ^c   Minami, Masa Aki ^c   Araki, Tsutomu ^c   Yasui, Takeshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS;

ACQUISITION TIME; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; LITHIUM NIOBATE CRYSTAL; OPTICAL RECTIFICATIONS; PEAK-TO-PEAK; PROJECTION IMAGE; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; ROTATION ANGLES; SPATIO-TEMPORAL; TERA HERTZ; TERAHERTZ IMAGING; TERAHERTZ PULSE; TERAHERTZ PULSE GENERATION; TEST SAMPLES; THREE-DIMENSIONAL RECONSTRUCTION;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SYSTEM; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; TERAHERTZ IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; TERAHERTZ IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84874039600     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.002423     Document Type: Article

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