Time-reversal MUSIC imaging of extended targets

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1967-1984

  Marengo, Edwin A ^a   Gruber, Fred K ^a   Simonetti, Francesco ^b  

^a Northeastern University   (United States)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Extended target; Imaging; Inverse Scattering; Multiple Signal classification; Shape reconstruction; Signal subspace; Time reversal

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

INVERSE SCATTERING; MULTIPLE SIGNAL CLASSIFICATION (MUSIC); SHAPE RECONSTRUCTION; SIGNAL SUBSPACE;

ACOUSTIC IMAGING;

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34547736904     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2007.899193     Document Type: Article

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