Speaker: Prof. Francesca Vipiana, Dept. of Electronics and Telecommunications, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

Abstract:
Microwave sensing and imaging is a technology able to exploit differences in dielectric properties of objects illuminated with an array of antennas/sensors at low-power microwave frequencies. It
has several attractive characteristics such as it is non-destructive, contactless, totally safe for operators, potentially real-time, cost-efficient and easy to operate.

In this seminar, the key ingredients to design, model, realize and test microwave imaging systems will be presented, including an ad-hoc problem-based design procedure, a reliable and effective forward solver, model-based imaging techniques and specialized hardware. The proposed microwave imaging systems are designed for two real-world applications: quality control in food industry in order to detect foreign bodies contamination in packaged products, and medical diagnostic for the continuous monitoring of patients after the stroke onset.