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Fast 3D microwave imaging inside cavity with minimum number of antennas and modified inverse algorithm
Author(s) -
Babazadeh Omid
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
engineering reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2577-8196
DOI - 10.1002/eng2.12466
Subject(s) - microwave imaging , perfect conductor , antenna (radio) , inverse scattering problem , computation , scattering , microwave , inverse problem , optics , algorithm , dipole antenna , physics , regularization (linguistics) , inverse , computer science , mathematics , mathematical analysis , telecommunications , geometry , artificial intelligence
Abstract This article proposes an optimized method for 3D microwave imaging of various unknown objects inside a perfect electric conductor cavity. The total field scattered field technique uses the finite difference time domain method to obtain scattered fields inside a cavity in the forward scattering problem. However, the conjugate gradient method is optimized and used alongside a combined regularization term in the inverse scattering problem, which is essential for the reconstruction process. A dipole antenna is located as an incident wave from the transmitting antenna. Besides, one antenna acts as the receiver. Identifying the unknown objects with different shapes, sizes, materials, and locations using the minimum number of transmitting and receiving antennas, and the newly developed algorithm with less computation time, are the main advantages of this article. Also, the implemented method can be used in the 3D microwave imaging of multi‐scattering problems.