Single-shot tomographic movies of evolving light-velocity objects

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Li, Zhengyan ^a   Zgadzaj, Rafal ^a   Wang, Xiaoming ^a   Chang, Yen Yu ^a   Downer, Michael C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER; LIGHT EFFECT; PLASMA; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY; WAKE;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DYNAMICS; LASER DIFFRACTION; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; SINGLE SHOT TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84892971681     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4085     Document Type: Article

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