Active Microwave Imaging of Inhomogeneous Bodies

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 1985, Pages 416-425

  Pichot, Christian ^a   Peronnet, Guillaume ^a   Bolomey, Jean Charles ^a   Jofre, Luis ^a  

^a UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS - TISSUE; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS - ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING - RECONSTRUCTION; MICROWAVES - DIFFRACTION;

DIELECTRIC RODS; INHOMOGENEOUS BODIES; MICROWAVE IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHIC RECONSTRUCTION;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 0022046036     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: 15582221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.1985.1143603     Document Type: Article

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