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Microwave Imaging Applied to Noninvasive Diagnostic of Cultural Heritage Artworks

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The Future of Heritage Science and Technologies (Florence Heri-Tech 2022)

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A prototype portable tomographic system for microwave imaging is presented in this paper as non-destructive testing technique for the full-volume inspection of a work of art, as it can give morphological and physical information on the inner structure of the investigated sample. A custom-made 3D-printed structure has been built to support the antenna elements of the systems and enclose the target being tested. Transmission measurements between pairs of antennas have been acquired through a Vector Network Analyzer connected to a modular switching matrix. Finally, data have been inverted by an open-source reconstruction algorithm to generate the image.

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Acknowledgement

This research was supported by COOLTURE Project funded by italian Regione Lazio POR FESR LAZIO 2014–2020 AVVISO PUBBLICO “GRUPPI DI RICERCA 2020”.

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  1. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Istituto per la Microelettronica E Microsistemi, Via Fosso del Cavaliere 100, 00133, Rome, Italy

    Emanuela Proietti, Giovanni Capoccia, Romolo Marcelli, Giovanni Maria Sardi & Barbara Caponera

  2. Istituto VA-VE, Piazza Trento 5, 00019, Tivoli, Rome, Italy

    Barbara Caponera

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  1. Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

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  3. Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

    Yary Volpe

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Proietti, E., Capoccia, G., Marcelli, R., Sardi, G.M., Caponera, B. (2023). Microwave Imaging Applied to Noninvasive Diagnostic of Cultural Heritage Artworks. In: Furferi, R., Governi, L., Volpe, Y., Gherardini, F., Seymour, K. (eds) The Future of Heritage Science and Technologies. Florence Heri-Tech 2022. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17594-7_29

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