An Efficient Algorithm for MIMO Cylindrical Millimeter-Wave Holographic 3-D Imaging

A novel cylindrical millimeter-wave holography regime using a multi-input-multi-output (MIMO) array is first introduced. More importantly, an accurate and fast 3-D imaging algorithm is developed for this regime. Although many efficient imaging algorithms for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) or circular SAR have been developed, they can hardly be used for this new regime due to the compound effects of a spherical wavefront, MIMO geometry, and cylindrical observation aperture. In this paper, we develop an efficient algorithm mainly based on the ideas of a spherical wave decomposition, circular convolution, and nonuniform fast Fourier transform. The proposed algorithm achieves similar imaging quality with the golden-standard back-projection algorithm (BPA) while costs much less time. Compared with the BPA, the proposed algorithm belongs to a kind of the frequency-domain method built upon range migration techniques. Detailed derivations are first presented. Then, several important issues including resolutions, sampling criteria, and computational complexities are analyzed. Finally, a series of simulations and experiments are carried out, and all the results verify the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm on both accuracy and efficiency.

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