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Among the many autofocusing technologies which are crucial in ISAR imaging, minimum-entropy-based autofocusing (MEA) is highly robust. However, traditional MEA is not suitable for terahertz (THz) ISAR imaging. For one thing, the iterative process in traditional MEA is too complicated to be utilized for THz-ISAR imaging with tremendous data. For another, THz wavelengths are very short and extremely sensitive to phase errors, so the compensation accuracy of the traditional MEA method can hardly meet the requirements of THz radar high-resolution imaging. Therefore, in this paper, the MEA algorithm based on the damped Newton method is proposed, which improves computational efficiency by approximating the first- and second-order partial derivatives of the image entropy function with respect to the phase errors, as well as by the fast Fourier transform (FFT). The search step size factor is introduced to ensure that the algorithm can converge along the declination direction of the entropy function and obtain the globally optimal ISAR image. The experimental results validated the efficiency of the proposed algorithm, which is promising in THz-ISAR imaging of maneuvering targets.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s22186883","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,9,13]],"date-time":"2022-09-13T04:05:41Z","timestamp":1663041941000},"page":"6883","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Autofocusing of Maneuvering Targets in Terahertz Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging Based on Damped Newton Method"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"22","author":[{"given":"Hetong","family":"Wang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Electronic Science, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Qi","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Electronic Science, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Hongqiang","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Electronic Science, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Bin","family":"Deng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Electronic Science, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,9,12]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"\u00d6zdemir, C. 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