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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2018

Three-Dimensional Terahertz Coded-Aperture Imaging Based on Back Projection.

Shuo Chen, Chenggao Luo, Hongqiang Wang, Wenpeng Wang, Long Peng, Zhaowen Zhuang

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Shuo ChenSchool of Electronic Science, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China. chenshuo_nudt@163.com.ORCID 0000-0001-9398-0009
Chenggao LuoSchool of Electronic Science, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China. luochenggao@nudt.edu.cn.
Hongqiang WangSchool of Electronic Science, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China. wanghongqiang@nudt.edu.cn.
Wenpeng WangScience and Technology on Millimeter-Wave Laboratory, Beijing 100039, China. iyoga2017@163.com.
Long PengSchool of Electronic Science, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China. penglong17@nudt.edu.cn.
Zhaowen ZhuangSchool of Electronic Science, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China. zwzhuang@nudt.edu.cn.

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Abstract

Terahertz coded-aperture imaging (TCAI) can overcome the difficulties of traditional radar in forward-looking and high-resolution imaging. Three-dimensional (3D) TCAI relies mainly on the reference-signal matrix (RSM), the large size and poor accuracy of which reduce the computational efficiency and imaging ability, respectively. According to the previous research on TCAI, traditional TCAI cannot reduce the heavy computational burden while the improved TCAI achieve reconstructing the target parts of different ranges in parallel. However, large-sized RSM still accounts for the computational complexity of traditional TCAI and the improved TCAI. Therefore, this paper proposes a more efficient imaging method named back projection (BP)-TCAI (BP-TCAI). Referring to the basic principle of BP, BP-TCAI can not only divide the scattering information in different ranges but also project the range profiles into different imaging subareas. In this way, the target parts in different subareas can be reconstructed simultaneously to synthesize the whole 3D target and thus decomposes the computational complexity thoroughly. During the pulse compression and projection processes, the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of BP-TCAI is also improved. This present the imaging method, model and procedures of traditional TCAI, the improved TCAI and the proposed BP-TCAI. Numerical experimental results prove BP-TCAI to be more effective and efficient than previous imaging methods of TCAI. Besides, BP-TCAI can also be seen as synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging with coding technology. Therefore, BP-TCAI opens a future gate combining traditional SAR and coded-aperture imaging.

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back projection (BP)coded-aperture imagingsynthetic aperture radar (SAR)three-dimensional (3D)

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