Magnetic Resonance Detection of Explosives and Illicit Materials

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Apih, Tomaž (Editor), Rameev, Bulat (Editor), Mozzhukhin, Georgy (Editor), Barras, Jamie (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics,
• Subjects: Physics.; Spectroscopy.; System safety.; Microscopy.; Security Science and Technology.; Spectroscopy and Microscopy.; Spectroscopy/Spectrometry.

Detection of concealed explosives is a notoriously difficult problem, and many different approaches have been proposed to solve this problem. Nuclear quadrupole resonance (NQR) is unique in many ways. It operates in a safe AM radio frequency range, and it can remotely detect unique “fingerprint” (NQ...

Table of Contents:

• Part 1 Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance Detection of Solids
• Further improvement of NQR technique for detection of illicit substances
• An Overview of NQR Signal Detection Algorithms
• Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance of Pantaerythritol Tetranitrate (PETN) in Different Compositions
• Cross-relaxation enhanced NQR of ammonium nitrate in low magnetic field
• Investigating homonuclear broadening in NQR with Carr-Purcell Meiboom-Gill performed on p-chloroaniline
• Size Effect in 14N Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance Spectroscopy
• NQR Detection of Sodium Nitrite Recrystallized in Wood
• Part 2 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Detection of Liquids
• Bottled Liquid Scanner for Security Checkpoints
• MagViz: A Bottled Liquids Scanner Using Ultra-low field NMR Relaxometry
• Multiparameter NMR Identification of Liquid Substances
• NMR-Based Liquid Explosives Detector: Advantages and Disadvantages of Different Configurations
• Composite Pulses in Inhomogeneous Field NMR
• Part 3 Other Techniques
• Novel HTS DC Squid Solutions For NMR Applications
• Passive Sub THz Imaging.