A multi-channel radiometer with focal plane array antenna for W-band passive millimeterwave imaging

IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1592-1595

  Richter, Jürgen ^a   Nötel, Denis ^b   Klöppelt, Frank ^b   Huckt, Johann ^b   Essent, Helmut ^b   Schmidt, Lorenz Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR HIGH FREQUENCY PHYSICS AND RADAR TECHNIQUES FHR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; DIELECTRIC DEVICES; FOCAL PLANE ARRAYS; IMAGE ACQUISITION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MILLIMETER WAVES;

CONCEALED WEAPON DETECTION (CWD); MULTIPLE BEAMS; PASSIVE MILLIMETER WAVE IMAGING; SECURITY MEASURES;

RADIOMETERS;

EID: 34250344245     PISSN: 0149645X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MWSYM.2006.249639     Document Type: Conference Paper

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