Efficient Phase Shift Migration for MIMO 2-D Imaging in Millimeter-Wave Band

Abstract

The real-time capability becomes more and more important for the millimeter-wave imaging systems in variety of applications. To achieve this purpose, the imaging scheme with multiple-input–multiple-output (MIMO) is one of the potential ways, while still limited by the high computational complexity of the conventional MIMO image reconstruction algorithm, which is commonly based on the back-projection theorem. In this letter, an efficient phase shift migration (PSM) image reconstruction algorithm was proposed to improve the computation efficiency for MIMO systems 2-D imaging. By decomposing and approximating the PSM operator reasonably, only complex multiplication and Fourier transform (FT) operations are employed which can be easily carried out to reduce computation cost. An MIMO side-looking prototype system was designed for proof experiments in the 100-GHz band. Although the proposed algorithm introduces a negligible phase error, the experimental results show that the error can be ignored and the algorithm can achieve high-precision real-time imaging.