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Offers up-to-date treatment of fingerprint detection with lasers, including basic principles and equipment, established photoluminescence-based detection techniques and a range of emerging techniques. This second edition summarizes information on time-resolved fingerprint detection, transition selection rules, image intensifiers and CCD cameras, uses of photoluminescence in criminalistics, and scientific principles underlying figerprint detection.
List of contents
Light, spectra and lasers; light sources; spectroscopic and imaging instrumentation; spectral measurements; time-resolved imaging; fingerprint detection not based on photoluminescence; photoluminescence-based physical treatments; photoluminescence-based chemical treatments; excitation optimization and filters; time-resolved fingerprint detection; photoluminescence in physical evidence examination generally. Appendices: image processing; probability in fingerprint identification; vendors.
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E. Roland Menzel
Summary
Offers a treatment of fingerprint detection with lasers, including basic principles and equipment, established photoluminescence-based detection techniques. This work summarizes information on time-resolved fingerprint detection, transition selection rules, image intensifiers and CCD cameras, and uses of photoluminescence in criminalistics.
