High-resolution passive millimeter-wave security screening using few amplifiers

Christopher A. Martin; John A. Lovberg; William H. Dean; Eahab Ibrahim

doi:10.1117/12.718950

1 May 2007 High-resolution passive millimeter-wave security screening using few amplifiers

Christopher A. Martin, John A. Lovberg, William H. Dean, Eahab Ibrahim

Proceedings Volume 6548, Passive Millimeter-Wave Imaging Technology X; 654806 (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.718950
Event: Defense and Security Symposium, 2007, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

Trex Enterprises has applied the frequency scanned antenna architecture found in the ST-150 stand-off imager to closein personnel screening devices, including a full-body imager and a handheld scanning imager. These devices present the user with an image with 3mm square pixels and 10-18 mm spatial resolution using few amplifiers and a low level of mechanical complexity. The frequency scanned architecture permits the real-time imaging of a linear array of 64 pixels with a single amplifier module. The linear imager or imagers are slowly mechanically scanned to provide a twodimensional image. The imagers were used to capture images of concealed threat items at thermal resolutions from 1 K to 0.2 K, indoor and outdoors. Image quality is generally superior to that of stand-off detectors, detecting items as small as 10 mm.

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Christopher A. Martin, John A. Lovberg, William H. Dean, and Eahab Ibrahim "High-resolution passive millimeter-wave security screening using few amplifiers", Proc. SPIE 6548, Passive Millimeter-Wave Imaging Technology X, 654806 (1 May 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.718950

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