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Register a new userActive millimeter wave three-dimensional scan real-time imaging mechanism with a line antenna array
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Yang Yu
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2021
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Electronic Engineering
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Active Millimeter wave (AMMW) imaging is of interest as it has played important roles in wide variety of applications, from nondestructive test to medical diagnosis. Current AMMW imaging systems have a high spatial resolution and can realize three-dimensional (3D) imaging. However, conventional AMMW imaging systems based on the synthetic aperture require either time-consume acquisition or reconstruction. The AMMW imaging systems based on real-aperture are able to real-time imaging but they need a large aperture and a complex two-dimensional (2D) scan structure to get 3D images. Besides, most AMMW imaging systems need the targets keep still and hold a special posture while screening, limiting the throughput. Here, by using beam control techniques and fast post-processing algorithms, we demonstrate the AMMW 3D scan real-time imaging mechanism with a line antenna array, which can realize 3D real-time imaging by a simple one-dimensional (1D) linear moving, simultaneously, with a satisfactory throughput (over 2000 people per-hour, 10 times than the commercial AMMW imaging systems) and a low system cost. First, the original spherical beam lines generated by the linear antenna array are modulated to fan beam lines via a bi-convex cylindrical lens. Then the holographic imaging algorithm is used to primarily focus the echo data of the imaged object. Finally, the defocus blur is corrected rapidly to get high resolution images by deconvolution. Since our method does not need targets to keep still, has a low system cost, can achieve 3D real-time imaging with a satisfactory throughput simultaneously, this work has the potential to serve as a foundation for future short-range AMMW imaging systems, which can be used in a variety of fields such as security inspection, medical diagnosis, etc.
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