Novel Fully Electronic Active Real-Time Millimeter-Wave Imaging System based on a Planar Multistatic Sparse Array

Ahmed SS, Schießl A, Schmidt LP (2011)

Publication Language: English

Publication Type: Conference contribution

Publication year: 2011

Event location: Baltimore US

ISBN: 978-1-61284-757-3

DOI: 10.1109/MWSYM.2011.5972855

Abstract

The interest on active millimeter-wave and microwave imaging systems is increasing nowadays due to their utilization in security, medical, and industrial applications. Imaging systems using monostatic arrays suffer from the high number of antenna positions, making a fully electronic solution very costly and impractical. Multistatic arrays, however, offer the chance for high reduction factors in the number of antennas, and then allow for fully electronic solutions. Here, a new array architecture is presented, which is suitable for real-time operation and is capable of delivering high image quality in means of resolution and dynamic range. An example array is demonstrated for operation from 72 to 80 GHz. The imaging system hardware is introduced, along with imaging results of humans.

Authors with CRIS profile

Andreas Schießl Lehrstuhl für Hochfrequenztechnik Lorenz-Peter Schmidt Lehrstuhl für Hochfrequenztechnik

Involved external institutions

Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG DE Germany (DE)

How to cite

APA:

Ahmed, S.S., Schießl, A., & Schmidt, L.-P. (2011). Novel Fully Electronic Active Real-Time Millimeter-Wave Imaging System based on a Planar Multistatic Sparse Array. In Proceedings of the International Microwave Symposium 2011. Baltimore, US.

MLA:

Ahmed, Sherif Sayed, Andreas Schießl, and Lorenz-Peter Schmidt. "Novel Fully Electronic Active Real-Time Millimeter-Wave Imaging System based on a Planar Multistatic Sparse Array." Proceedings of the International Microwave Symposium 2011, Baltimore 2011.

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