Overview
- Will interest engineers and scientists in innovative technology and conservators working at museums
- Presents a milestone of THz technology in heritage science
- Is authored by the first person in the world to have applied this technique to actual museum objects
Part of the book series: Cultural Heritage Science (CUHESC)
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About this book
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 and the physics behind them. A new method utilizing THz technology is introduced, which will help conservators and historians to analyse art objects at their museums. By using pulse echoes, THz imaging can noninvasively show internal structures such as layers in paintings and internal defects or additional pieces in objects. The biggest advantage of THz technology in heritage science is that THz waves can reveal the condition of preparation layers and supports of paintings that cannot be observed by other nondestructive testing methods, such as infrared (IR) or X-ray radiography. The condition of supports and preparation layers determine the lifetime of the paintings, so that their condition is the key factor for conservation planning.
The comparison with existing classic methods for scientific analyses is extremely important in the context of introducing new technologies in any research field, since most conservators and heritage scientists have their own protocols for classic methods. This book compares THz results not only with visible cross sections obtained using destructive methods, but also mid-IR, near IR, UV, X-ray, and nuclear magnetic resonance(NMR), which are considered to be nondestructive methods.
The book suggests future work that can be done by THz specialists, especially concerning the development of THz cameras, and by engineers and scientists in other fields, such as signal processing and chemistry, as well as by conservators.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
Kaori Fukunaga received her Ph.D. in engineering from Tokyo Denki University in 1993 while she was working at Fujikura Ltd. She joined the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) in 1994, and is a research manager in the Applied Electromagnetic Research Center. Her current research fields include deterioration analysis of dielectric and electrical insulating materials, and industrial applications of millimeter wave and terahertz technologies. She is an art lover from her childhood, and received her BA in Art and Design from Musashino Art University in 2013. She is a member of IEEE, IEE Japan and IIC.
Lecture videos:
http://www.loc.gov/preservation/outreach/tops/fukunaga/
http://www.canalc2.tv/video.asp?idVideo=9959
OA review paper:
http://www.e-conservationline.com/content/view/772
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: THz Technology Applied to Cultural Heritage in Practice
Authors: Kaori Fukunaga
Series Title: Cultural Heritage Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55885-9
Publisher: Springer Tokyo
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Japan KK 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-4-431-55883-5Published: 19 July 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-4-431-56721-9Published: 07 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-4-431-55885-9Published: 04 July 2016
Series ISSN: 2366-6226
Series E-ISSN: 2366-6234
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 144
Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations, 92 illustrations in colour
Topics: Characterization and Evaluation of Materials, Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices, Cultural Heritage, Spectroscopy/Spectrometry, Spectroscopy and Microscopy