Reconstruction of permittivity profiles in cylindrical objects illuminated by higher order TEmn and TMmn modes

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 2721-2729

  Akhtar, M J ^a   Omar, Abbas S ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biomedical electromagnetic imaging; Electromagnetic scattering inverse problems; Microwave imaging; Remote sensing; Tomography

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MICROWAVES; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PERMITTIVITY; REMOTE SENSING; RICCATI EQUATIONS; TOMOGRAPHY;

BIOMEDICAL ELECTROMAGNETIC IMAGING; MICROWAVE IMAGING;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0034428955     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.899036     Document Type: Article

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