Analysis of focusing of pulse modulated microwave signals inside a tissue medium

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 44, Issue 10 PART 2, 1996, Pages 1788-1798

  Nikita, Konstantina S ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE INTERFERENCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TISSUE; WAVEGUIDES;

GALERKIN PROCEDURE; INVERSE FOURIER INTEGRAL; PULSE MODULATED MICROWAVE SIGNALS; WAVE EQUATIONS; WAVEGUIDE APERTURES; WAVEGUIDE APPLICATORS;

MICROWAVES;

EID: 0030257647     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.539936     Document Type: Article

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