Image restoration in chirp-pulse microwave CT (CP-MCT)

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 690-699

  Bertero, Mario ^a   Miyakawa, Michio ^b   Boccacci, Patrizia ^a   Conte, Francesco ^b   Orikasa, Kentaroh ^a   Furutani, Masatoshi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Image restoration; Microwave tomography

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; PHANTOM; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

ALGORITHMS; BODY TEMPERATURE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROWAVES; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0034111369     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/10.841341     Document Type: Article

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