Pre-scaled two-parameter Gauss-Newton image reconstruction to reduce property recovery imbalance

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 1101-1119

  Meaney, Paul M ^a   Yagnamurthy, Navin K ^a   Paulsen, Keith D ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; PERMITTIVITY; TISSUE;

WAVE NUMBERS;

MEDICINE;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MICROWAVE IRRADIATION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; GELS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROWAVES; PHANTOMS, IMAGING;

EID: 0037035347     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/47/7/308     Document Type: Article

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