THz Technology Applied to Cultural Heritage in Practice

• Main Author: Fukunaga, Kaori (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Series: Cultural Heritage Science,
• Subjects: Materials science.; Cultural heritage.; Spectroscopy.; Lasers.; Photonics.; Microscopy.; Materials Science.; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials.; Laser Technology, Photonics.; Cultural Heritage.; Spectroscopy/Spectrometry.; Spectroscopy and Microscopy.

This book describes the current, concrete status of terahertz (THz) technology applied to scientific diagnoses of cultural heritage objects for conservation planning as well as for historical interest. It is unlike other THz-related scientific books in optics series, which only describe technologies...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• THz instruments
• THz spectroscopy
• THz pulsed time domain imaging (THz pulsed TDI)
• Comparison of THz pulsed TDI with classic methods
• Case studies of THz pulsed TDI .