Portable real-time microwave camera at 24 GHz

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 60, Issue 2 PART 2, 2012, Pages 1114-1125

  Ghasr, Mohammad Tayeb ^a   Abou Khousa, Mohamed A ^a,b   Kharkovsky, Sergey ^c   Zoughi, R ^a   Pommerenke, David ^a  

^a University of Missouri Rolla   (United States)

^b ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Electric field mapping; Microwave camera; Nondestructive testing; Real time imaging; Switchable slot antenna

Indexed keywords

2-D ELECTRIC FIELD; ARRAY ELEMENTS; ARRAY RESPONSE; DYNAMIC RANGE; ELECTRIC FIELD DISTRIBUTIONS; ELECTRIC FIELD MAPPING; FRAME-RATE; HETERODYNE RECEIVERS; HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE; LOW-LOSS WAVEGUIDES; MODULATED SCATTERING TECHNIQUES; MULTIPLEXING SCHEMES; NON DESTRUCTIVE TESTING; REAL-TIME IMAGES; REALTIME IMAGING; SWITCHABLE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL ARRAYS;

ANTENNA ARRAYS; CAMERAS; ELECTRIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC FIELDS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES;

SLOT ANTENNAS;

EID: 84857029633     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2011.2173145     Document Type: Article

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