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Nature 424, 721-722 (14 August 2003) | doi:10.1038/424721a
Terahertz imaging: T-ray specs
Catherine Zandonella1
- Catherine Zandonella is a freelance writer in New York.
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Abstract
Radiation from a previously unexploited region of the electromagnetic spectrum could hold the key to a new generation of security devices. Catherine Zandonella investigates.
Suicide bombers, plastic explosives strapped to their bodies, approach the turnstiles at a packed football stadium. The security guards don't have time to search every spectator, and even if a metal detector were installed, it would miss the terrorists' deadly cargo.
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