Research progress of terahertz nondestructive testing in the field of cultural relic

MENG Tianhua; ZHAO Guozhong; WANG Haohang; LIU Hongmei; REN Jianguang; HU Weidong; LU Yuhe; LI Wenyu

doi:10.11805/tkyda2022132

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