Approaches to millimeter-wave imaging of humans

Conference Proceedings - 1st European Radar Conference, EuRAD

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 279-282

  Detlefsen, Jürgen ^a   Dallinger, Alexander ^a   Schelkshorn, Simon ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INVERSE TECHNIQUES; LENS FOCUSING TECHNIQUES; MILLIMETER WAVE IMAGING; REAL TIME IMAGING;

ATTENUATION; DATA ACQUISITION; HUMAN FORM MODELS; METAL DETECTORS; MILLIMETER WAVES; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; VISUALIZATION;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

EID: 19644377942     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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