Terahertz isar imaging method and system
AssigneeTsinghua University
InventorsXIAO-PING ZHENG, ZHAN OU, XIAO-JIAO DENG
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Abstract
The disclosure relates to a method and a system for terahertz ISAR imaging. In the method, a chirp signal is transmitted to an imaging target moving at a preset speed and a terahertz ISAR echo signal is received. The terahertz ISAR echo signal is matched filtered in a fast time domain, baseband transformed in a slow time domain, corrected to eliminate a time domain zero offset, baseband transformed, discretized, interpolated, and two-dimensional inverse Fourier transformed to obtain a two-dimensional image of the imaging target.
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A method for terahertz ISAR imaging, comprising:
- transmitting a linear frequency modulation signal from a terahertz ISAR to an imaging target, and receiving an echo signal sr(t,u) by the terahertz ISAR, the imaging target moving at a preset speed;
- setting a target reference position, and acquiring a reference signal s0(t) according to the target reference position;
- using the reference signal s0(t) to perform a matched filtering in a fast time domain on the echo signal sr(t,u) to obtain a data matrix SM(ω,u);
- performing a baseband transformation in a slow time domain on the data matrix SM(ω,u) to obtain a baseband transformed data matrix Sb(ω,u) and a corresponding signal spectrum Sb(ω,ku);
- correcting the baseband transformed data matrix Sb(ω,u) to eliminate a fast time domain zero offset, thereby obtaining a corrected data matrix S(w,ku);
- using a phase function of the reference signal to perform another baseband transformation on the corrected data matrix S(ω,ku) to obtain a first target function F(kx,ky);
- discretizing the first target function F(kx,ky) to obtain F(kxmn,kymn), and interpolating on a kxmn domain to uniformly distribute the F(kxmn,kymn) on the kxmn domain;
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- performing an inverse transformation on the interpolated first target function to obtain a second target function ƒ(xn,yn) to generate a two-dimensional image of the imaging target.
A system for terahertz ISAR imaging, comprising:
- a terahertz ISAR configured to transmit a terahertz wave to an imaging target and receive an echo signal;
- a travolator configured to horizentally convey the imaging target to synchronously move the imaging target with the travolator;
- a control unit configured to control an operation of the terahertz ISAR and a speed of the travolator;
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- an image processing unit creating an image for the imaging target according to the echo signal and the speed of the travolator.
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