Differential Ultra-Wideband Microwave Imaging: Principle Application Challenges
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Electronic Measurements and Signal Processing Group, Technische Universität Ilmenau, 98693 Ilmenau, Germany
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Biosignal Processing Group, Technische Universität Ilmenau, 98693 Ilmenau, Germany
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Faculty of Electrical Engineering, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, 16317 Tehran, Iran
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Sensors 2018, 18(7), 2136; https://doi.org/10.3390/s18072136
Received: 9 May 2018 / Revised: 25 June 2018 / Accepted: 30 June 2018 / Published: 3 July 2018
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensors for Microwave Imaging and Detection)
Wideband microwave imaging is of interest wherever optical opaque scenarios need to be analyzed, as these waves can penetrate biological tissues, many building materials, or industrial materials. One of the challenges of microwave imaging is the computation of the image from the measurement data because of the need to solve extensive inverse scattering problems due to the sometimes complicated wave propagation. The inversion problem simplifies if only spatially limited objects—point objects, in the simplest case—with temporally variable scattering properties are of interest. Differential imaging uses this time variance by observing the scenario under test over a certain time interval. Such problems exist in medical diagnostics, in the search for surviving earthquake victims, monitoring of the vitality of persons, detection of wood pests, control of industrial processes, and much more. This paper gives an overview of imaging methods for point-like targets and discusses the impact of target variations onto the radar data. Because the target variations are very weak in many applications, a major issue of differential imaging concerns the suppression of random effects by appropriate data processing and concepts of radar hardware. The paper introduces related methods and approaches, and some applications illustrate their performance.
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Keywords:
microwave imaging; medical imaging; vital data capturing; ultra-wideband; target localization; M-sequence; pulse radar; through-wall radar; wooden pest detection
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Sachs, J.; Ley, S.; Just, T.; Chamaani, S.; Helbig, M. Differential Ultra-Wideband Microwave Imaging: Principle Application Challenges. Sensors 2018, 18, 2136. https://doi.org/10.3390/s18072136
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Sachs J, Ley S, Just T, Chamaani S, Helbig M. Differential Ultra-Wideband Microwave Imaging: Principle Application Challenges. Sensors. 2018; 18(7):2136. https://doi.org/10.3390/s18072136
Chicago/Turabian StyleSachs, Jürgen; Ley, Sebastian; Just, Thomas; Chamaani, Somayyeh; Helbig, Marko. 2018. "Differential Ultra-Wideband Microwave Imaging: Principle Application Challenges" Sensors 18, no. 7: 2136. https://doi.org/10.3390/s18072136
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