A microwave tomography approach for a differential configuration in GPR prospecting

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 54, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 3541-3548

  Persico, Raffaele ^a   Soldovieri, Francesco ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC SENSING OF THE ENVIRONMENT   (Italy)

Author keywords

Born approximation; Differential configuration; Inverse scattering; Microwave tomography

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; SCATTERING; TOMOGRAPHY;

BORN APPROXIMATION; DIFFERENTIAL CONFIGURATION; INVERSE SCATTERING; MICROWAVE TOMOGRAPHY;

GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS;

EID: 37349040443     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2006.882161     Document Type: Article

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