Detection at microwave frequencies based on self-adjoint sensitivity analysis

A novel general formulation of the response sensitivity analysis is proposed and implemented in a computationally efficient algorithm for the detection of electrically small scatterers in a known background medium. The responses of the background medium where no scatterers are present are modeled via ultra-wideband time-domain simulation. Using these modeled responses and the measured responses of the examined object, 3D derivative maps are …