Reconstructing permittivity profiles using integral transforms and improved renormalization techniques

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1385-1393

  Akhtar, M J ^a   Omar, Abbas S ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PERMITTIVITY; RICCATI EQUATIONS;

HANKEL TRANSFORM; MICROWAVE IMAGING;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 0034251065     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.859485     Document Type: Article

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