An innovative microwave-imaging technique for nondestructive evaluation: Applications to civil structures monitoring and biological bodies inspection

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1878-1883

  Benedetti, Manuel ^b   Donelli, Massimo ^b   Martini, Anna ^b   Pastorino, Matteo ^a,c   Rosani, Andrea ^b   Massa, Andrea ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biomedical electromagnetic imaging; Genetic algorithms; Inverse problems; Microwave imaging; Nondestructive testing

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ALGORITHMS; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MICROWAVES; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; REAL TIME CONTROL;

BIOMEDICAL ELECTROMAGNETIC IMAGING; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; MICROWAVE IMAGING; SHERMAN MORRISON WOODBURY MATRIX INVERSION METHOD;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 33947306725     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2006.884287     Document Type: Article

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