Imaging effectiveness of multistatic radar for human body imaging

Current state-of-the art active millimeter wave radar systems for personnel inspection are based on monostatic or quasi-monostatic configurations that can misrepresent areas of the target when the specular reflection is oriented away from the incident direction. This paper analyzes a fully multistatic mm-wave imaging architecture for human body screening. Transmitters placed off the receiving aperture panel maximize the surface of the human body that can be reconstructed. The effectiveness of this approach is demonstrated with 2D simulations. Three-dimensional simulation-based examples to validate the proposed system using realistic human body models will be presented at the conference.