A novel study on the MUSIC-type imaging of small electromagnetic inhomogeneities in the limited-aperture inverse scattering problem

Abstract

We apply MUltiple SIgnal Classification (MUSIC) algorithm for the location reconstruction of a set of {two-dimensional circle-like} small inhomogeneities in the limited-aperture inverse scattering problem. Compared with the full- or limited-view inverse scattering problem, the collected multi-static response (MSR) matrix is no more symmetric (thus not Hermitian), and therefore, it is difficult to define the projection operator onto the noise subspace through the traditional approach. With the help of an asymptotic expansion formula in the presence of small inhomogeneities and the structure of the MSR-matrix singular vector associated with nonzero singular values, we define an alternative projection operator onto the noise subspace and the corresponding MUSIC imaging function. To demonstrate the feasibility of the designed MUSIC, we show that the imaging function can be expressed by an infinite series of integer-order Bessel functions of the first kind and the range of incident and observation directions. Furthermore, we identify that the main factors of the imaging function for the permittivity and permeability contrast cases are the Bessel function of order zero and one, respectively. This further implies that the imaging performance significantly depends on the range of incident and observation directions; peaks of large magnitudes appear at the location of inhomogeneities for permittivity contrast case, and for the permeability contrast case, peaks of large magnitudes appear at the location of inhomogeneities when the range of such directions are narrow, while two peaks of large magnitudes appear in the neighborhood of the location of inhomogeneities when the range is wide enough. The numerical simulation results via noise-corrupted synthetic data also show that the designed MUSIC algorithm can address both permittivity and permeability contrast cases.

26 pages, 10 figures

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