Preliminary study of the influences of effective dielectric constant and nonuniform probe aperture field distribution on near field microwave images

Materials Evaluation

Volumn 55, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1169-1173

  Qaddoumi, Nasser ^b   Zoughi, Reza ^a  

^a Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Composite materials; Electromagnetics; Imaging; Microwave testing; Near field; Nondestructive testing; Probes

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; GEOMETRY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROWAVE SENSORS; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; WAVEGUIDES; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVES; PERMITTIVITY; VOLUME FRACTION;

APERTURE FIELD DISTRIBUTION; COMPOSITES MATERIAL; DIELECTRIC HALF SPACE; EFFECTIVE DIELECTRIC CONSTANTS; ELECTROMAGNETICS; MICROWAVE IMAGES; MICROWAVE TESTING; NEAR FIELDS; NEAR-FIELD MICROWAVE IMAGING; WAVEGUIDE APERTURES;

PROBES; COMPOSITE MATERIALS;

NEAR FIELD MICROWAVE IMAGES;

EID: 0031258116     PISSN: 00255327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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