Fingerprint Detection with Lasers

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.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Menzel, E Roland Menzel, Menzel E. Roland
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.03.1999
• EAN: 9780824719746
• ISBN: 978-0-8247-1974-6
• No. of pages: 284
• Weight: 589 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; LAW / Forensic Science, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Lasers & Photonics, Forensic Science, Laser technology and holography, Laser technology & holography