Microwave imaging of electrical property distributions by a forward-backward time-stepping method

Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 1609-1626

  Takenaka, T ^a   Jia, H ^a   Tanaka, T ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; ITERATIVE METHODS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTIMIZATION; PERMITTIVITY; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TISSUE; TUMORS;

EDGE PRESERVING REGULARIZATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; FORWARD-BACKWARD TIME STEPPING METHOD; INVERSION ALGORITHM; LOSSY CYLINDRICAL OBJECT; MICROWAVE IMAGING; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHM;

MICROWAVES;

EID: 0034462156     PISSN: 09205071     EISSN: 15693937     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156939300X00383     Document Type: Article

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