Human body imaging by microwave UWB radar

This paper investigates the feasibility of human body imaging by means of microwave ultra-wideband (UWB) radar with a planar aperture. Its potential imaging capability is at first estimated by numerical simulation which demonstrates the dependence of cross-range resolution and side/grating lobe leve...

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Published in2008 European Radar Conference pp. 148 - 151
Main Authors Zhuge, X., Savelyev, T.G., Yarovoy, A.G., Ligthart, L.P., Matuzas, J., Levitas, B.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.10.2008
Subjects
Bandwidth
Gratings
Humans
Image resolution
Microwave imaging
Numerical simulation
Radar imaging
Spatial resolution
Ultra wideband radar
Ultra wideband technology
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Summary:This paper investigates the feasibility of human body imaging by means of microwave ultra-wideband (UWB) radar with a planar aperture. Its potential imaging capability is at first estimated by numerical simulation which demonstrates the dependence of cross-range resolution and side/grating lobe level on both the operational bandwidth and spatial sampling. Experimental results from 2-D synthetic aperture (SAR) measurements validate the possibility of using UWB radar to image a human body. A thinning technique that allows for a sparse aperture is further applied to reduce the number of required measurements for the practical use.
ISBN:2874870099
9782874870095