Enhancement of microwave tomography through the use of electrically conducting enclosures

Inverse Problems

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Gilmore, Colin ^a   Lovetri, Joe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTORS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; IMAGE MATCHING; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTING SURFACES; ELECTROMAGNETIC (EM) INVERSION ALGORITHMS; MICROWAVE TOMOGRAPHY (MWT); PERFECT ELECTRICAL CONDUCTOR (PEC);

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 44449174998     PISSN: 02665611     EISSN: 13616420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0266-5611/24/3/035008     Document Type: Article

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