APPLICATION OF THE BIFOCUSING METHOD IN MICROWAVE IMAGING BY CONVERTING UNKNOWN MEASUREMENT DATA INTO THE CONSTANT

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We consider the bifocusing method (BFM) for a fast identification of small ob- jects in microwave imaging. In many researches, it was very hard to measure the scattering parameter data if the location of the transmitter and the receiver is the same. Due to this reason, the imaging function of BFM has mainly been designed by converting unknown measurement data into the zero constant; this approach has yielded reliable imaging results, but the theoretical reason for this conversion has not been investigated yet. In this study, we converted unknown measurement data to a fixed constant and applied the BFM to retrieve small objects. To demon- strate the effect of the converted constant, we show that the imaging function of the BFM can be represented in terms of an infinite series of the Bessel functions of an integer order, antenna setting, material properties, and applied constant. Based on the theoretical result, we concluded that converting unknown measurement data to constant zero guarantees good imaging results, including the unique determination of the objects. Simulation results obtained with synthetic and real data support the theoretical result.