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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2000
Arthur H. Carrieri, Abingdon, MD (US);
Erik S. Roese, Baltimore, MD (US);
Stephen J. Colclough, Baltimore, MD (US);
Peter J. Schlitzkus, Baltimore, MD (US);
V. Kenneth Younger, Bel Air, MD (US);
James R. Orndoff, Baltimore, MD (US);
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
A Thermal Luminescence Water Monitor system and method for real-time remote sensing and identification of chemical and biological materials (CBMs) in a liquid source, comprising an irradiation component having a microwave radiation source tuned to water's vibration-rotation exciting energy, a glass cell for holding a liquid sample contained within a sealed chamber for its irradiation and concomitant liberation of thermal luminescence, a spectrometer analysis component for collecting and processing thermal luminescence emissions, a neural network component for filtering thermal luminescence difference-spectra components and pattern recognition of predetermined CBMs to determine their presence in the liquid source.