Compressive passive millimeter wave imager

Title: Compressive passive millimeter wave imager

A compressive scanning approach for millimeter wave imaging and sensing. A Hadamard mask is positioned to receive millimeter waves from an object to be imaged. A subset of the full set of Hadamard acquisitions is sampled. The subset is used to reconstruct an image representing the object.

Inventors:: Gopalsami, Nachappa; Liao, Shaolin; Elmer, Thomas W; Koehl, Eugene R; Heifetz, Alexander; Raptis, Apostolos C

Issue Date:: 2015-01-27

OSTI Identifier:: 1168680

Assignee:: UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, IL) CHO

Patent Number(s):: 8,941,061

Application Number:: 13/432,743

Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357

Research Org:: Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Org:: USDOE

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 42 ENGINEERING

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