THz imaging radar for standoff personnel screening

IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 169-182

  Cooper, Ken B ^a   Dengler, Robert J ^a   Llombart, Nuria ^b   Thomas, Bertrand ^c   Chattopadhyay, Goutam ^a   Siegel, Peter H ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c Radiometer Physics GmbH (RPG)   (Germany)

Author keywords

Terahertz imaging; ultra wideband radar

Indexed keywords

BEAM SCANNING; CONCEALED OBJECTS; FREQUENCY-MODULATED CONTINUOUS-WAVE RADARS; HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE; IMAGING RADAR; LOW NOISE; LOW-DISTORTION; MULTI-BEAM; NASA JET PROPULSION; PERSONNEL SCREENING; RADAR IMAGE; RADAR WAVEFORMS; RANGE RESOLUTION; SOFTWARE CALIBRATION; TERAHERTZ IMAGING; THZ IMAGING; ULTRA-WIDEBAND RADAR;

CONTINUOUS WAVE RADAR; INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES; NASA; OPTICAL DESIGN; TRACKING RADAR; TRANSCEIVERS;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 80052479029     PISSN: 2156342X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TTHZ.2011.2159556     Document Type: Article

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