A novel fully electronic active real-time imager based on a planar multistatic sparse array

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 59, Issue 12 PART 2, 2011, Pages 3567-3576

  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 BEAM FORMING; MICROWAVE IMAGING; MILLIMETER-WAVE IMAGING; PLANAR ARRAYS; SPARSE ARRAY;

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

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 83655167014     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2011.2172812     Document Type: Conference Paper

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