OVERVIEW

Electromagnetic sensing and imaging techniques are essential in many fields, ranging from radar systems to medical diagnostics. Understanding these techniques, from basic principles to more advanced applications, is essential to designing and using the electronic systems that rely on them.

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The unit aims to provide skills on electromagnetic sensing and diagnostic systems and techniques, such as radar, ground penetrating radar, X-ray and magnetic resonance imaging, microwave imaging. Both operating principles and implementation aspects will be covered, as well as their use in different application areas.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

The teaching unit provides skills on systems and techniques for electromagnetic sensing, diagnostics, and imaging, with particular reference to: radar systems for surveillance and monitoring; ground penetrating radar; X-ray and magnetic resonance imaging; microwave imaging and diagnostics; electrical impedance tomography. These topics are addressed both from the point of view of their operating principles and with reference to the implementation aspects and their use in different application fields (also through practical exercises). The aim is to enable students to design and use electromagnetic sensors and diagnostics systems. At the end of the course, students will be able to understand the operating modes and application issues of the main electromagnetic sensing and diagnostics systems.

PREREQUISITES

No specific prerequisites, in addition to the normal bases of mathematics, physics, and electromagnetic fields that the students are supposed to have from their B.Sc. backgrounds in engineering.

TEACHING METHODS

The teaching unit includes lectures in the classroom and laboratory exercises, in which both the theoretical concepts and the applicative aspects concerning eletromagnetic sensing and imaging techniques will be addressed, .

Students with valid certifications for Specific Learning Disorders (SLDs), disabilities or other educational needs are invited to contact the teacher and the School's contact person for disability at the beginning of teaching to agree on possible teaching arrangements that, while respecting the teaching objectives, take into account individual learning patterns. Contacts of the teacher and the School's disability contact person can be found at the following link Comitato di Ateneo per l’inclusione delle studentesse e degli studenti con disabilità o con DSA | UniGe | Università di Genova (https://unige.it/en/commissioni/comitatoperlinclusionedeglistudenticondisabilita)

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Recalls of EM propagation and scattering. Radar systems for surveillance and monitoring: operating principles and applications. Ground penetrating radar: Basic principles, signal processing techniques, applications. X-ray imaging: Basic principles, computerized tomography and applications. Magnetic resonance imaging: operating principles and image formation techniques. Microwave imaging and diagnostics: systems, methods and applications. Electrical impedance tomography.

The teaching unit contributes to the achievement of the following Sustainable Development Goals of the UN Agenda 2030: Goals no. 3, 8 and 9.

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Lecture notes provided by the teachers will be made available.

The following reference texts are also suggested:

• M. Pastorino and A. Randazzo, Microwave Imaging Methods and Applications. Boston, MA: Artech House, 2018.
• M. I. Skolnik, Introduction to Radar Systems. McGraw-Hill, 2001
• R. Persico, Introduction to Ground Penetrating Radar: Inverse Scattering and Data Processing. Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley, 2014.
• J. Prince and J. Links, Medical Imaging Signals and Systems, 2nd edition. Boston: Pearson, 2014.

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

LESSONS

LESSONS START

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Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

The exam is oral and consists of several questions concerning the lecture topics.

ASSESSMENT METHODS

Students will have to demonstrate that they understand the operating modes and application problems of the main electromagnetic sensing and diagnostic systems.

FURTHER INFORMATION

Ask the professor for other information not included in this description of the teaching unit.