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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 12, 1988
Filed:
Jul. 28, 1986
Orr Shepherd, Arlington, MA (US);
Visidyne, Inc., Burlington, MA (US);
Abstract
A high-sensitivity pulsed radiation detection system which receives pulses of radiation from a target area and includes a charge-coupled device having an array of photosensitive elements and an apparatus for receiving backscattered radiation from the target area. The apparatus repeatedly scans, across at least one row of the array, the back-scattered radiation from a plurality of regions within the target area. The photosensitive elements accumulate charges and are arranged in rows and columns. The detection system further includes a circuit for synchronizing the apparatus for scanning with the radiation pulses for accumulating in the same photosensitive element of the row charges representing the same region during successive scans.