Novel fully electronic active real-time millimeter-wave imaging system based on a planar multistatic sparse array

IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Ahmed, Sherif Sayed ^a   Schiessl, Andreas ^a   Schmidt, Lorenz Peter ^b  

^a ROHDE AND SCHWARZ GMBH AND CO KG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

digital beamforming; Microwave imaging; millimeter wave imaging; planar arrays; sparse array

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL-BEAMFORMING; MICROWAVE IMAGING; MILLIMETER WAVE IMAGING; PLANAR ARRAYS; SPARSE ARRAYS;

ANTENNAS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; MICROWAVES; MILLIMETER WAVES; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 80052334523     PISSN: 0149645X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MWSYM.2011.5972855     Document Type: Conference Paper

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