On the Use of Regularization Techniques in Numerical Inverse-Scattering Solutions for Microwave Imaging Applications

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 632-640

  Caorsi, Salvatore ^a   Ciaramella, Stefano ^a   Gragnani, Gian Luigi ^a   Pastorino, Matteo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; IMAGE QUALITY; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MICROWAVES; NUMERICAL METHODS;

DIELECTRIC RECONSTRUCTIONS; MICROWAVE IMAGING; NUMERICAL INVERSE SCATTERING; REGULARIZATION; TRUNCATED PSEUDOINVERSIONS;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 0029271748     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.372110     Document Type: Article

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