%0 Journal Article
%T Electromagnetic Imaging of Two-Dimensional Geometries by Multipulse Interference Using the Inverse FDTD Method
%A Naoki Okada
%A James B. Cole
%J Advances in Optical Technologies
%D 2014
%I Hindawi Publishing Corporation
%R 10.1155/2014/529563
%X The size, shape, and location of unknown objects in the ground and in the body can be estimated by an electromagnetic imaging technique. An imaging approach to clear detection of two-dimensional geometries is proposed in this paper. Based on the inverse finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method, a phase interference technique using multidirectional pulses is employed. The advantage of the proposed method is that it can clearly reconstruct the geometry in a simple calculation. Sample imaging results are demonstrated. The analysis of the FDTD results shows that the detectable object size is limited by the incident wavelength and the measurement spacing and illustrates the detectability of multiple objects. 1. Introduction Electromagnetic imaging is an inverse scattering technique to estimate unknown objects. The scattered wave from an object carries information about its geometry, size, and location. The original object shape can be reconstructed by numerically time reversing the scattering process. The inverse scattering technique has been widely studied for various applications [1¨C5] such as computed tomography, nondestructive evaluation, and geophysical remote sensing. A variety of electromagnetic imaging techniques [6¨C9] have been proposed based on the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method. FDTD works in the time domain with arbitrary structures [10, 11] and thus is suitable to calculate inverse scattering problems. One of the problems of electromagnetic imaging is to reconstruct the detailed geometry of original objects. Previous works successfully detected the position and size of the two- and three-dimensional objects [5¨C9], but the reconstructed geometries were unclear even for an object immersed in a uniform medium [12¨C18]. A comparatively successful imaging of the detailed geometry was demonstrated using phase interference with inverse FDTD simulations, in which the scattered field was calculated, and then using time reversal; the original shape was extracted from the interference patterns [19]. However this requires both the scattered electric and magnetic fields in the entire space, and it is difficult to clearly discern the original boundaries due to the continuities of electromagnetic fields unless the original shape is used in the visualization. In this paper, we propose a multipulse interference technique using the inverse FDTD method to improve the detection of geometrical details. In Section 2, we introduce the fundamentals of the proposed approach and demonstrate the imaging for some basic geometries. In Section 3, the
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