A patented camera that can see the ‘invisible’

Dr. Reza Zoughi, a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Missouri Science and Technology along with his research team have created a patented camera that works on the same lines of the body scanners that we find at airports. This camera makes use of microwave and millimeter signals that are non-ionizing in nature, to scan material/structure with image reproduction at the rate of 30 images per second. These signals are collected by a laptop which play the images in real time. The battery of the camera is similar to the size of a laptop’s and can run for hours altogether.

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This technology will be instrumental in addressing many critical aspects of sophisticated monitoring and can be customized for various requirements such as inspection of aircrafts, thermal insulating material within spacecrafts; it can be used in the medical field for inspecting cancers and internal body condition; it can also be used to detect illegal movement of goods in airports and elsewhere; it can also be used domestically to detect potential threat of termites/white ants.

This camera has been Zoughi’s vision since 1998 and he is still striving to improvise on the design and efficiency of the camera by giving it the same workability as a video camera and also increasing its capability to produce 3D/holographic real-time images.

Dr. Zoughi and his team of researchers at Missouri S&T - namely Dr. Mohamed Ahmed AbouKhousa, Dr. Mohammed Tayeb Ahmad Ghasr, Dr. Sergiy Kharkivskiy and Dr. David Pommerenke are all included in the patent for this innovative camera.

Via: Missouri University of Science and Technology