An improved method for the reconstruction of lossy dielectric objects

Microwave and Optical Technology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 282-288

  Yu, Wenhua ^a   Mittra, Raj ^a  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Inverse scattering; Numerical methods; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; ITERATIVE METHODS; REMOTE SENSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

FREQUENCY COMPENSATING TECHNIQUE (FCT); LOSSY DIELECTRIC OBJECTS; TIME DOMAIN DISTORTED BORN ITERATIVE METHOD (TDDBIM);

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 0031554698     PISSN: 08952477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2760(19970805)15:5<282::AID-MOP5>3.0.CO;2-5     Document Type: Article

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