Waveguide microwave imaging: Spherical inclusion in a dielectric sample

IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 647-649

  Brovko, Alexander V ^b   Murphy, Ethan K ^c,d   Rother, Matthias ^e   Schuchmann, Heike P ^e   Yakovlev, Vadim V ^a,d  

^a IEEE

^b SARATOV STATE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^d Life Science and Bioengineering Center   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

3 D microwave imaging; Finite difference time domain (FDTD) simulation; Non destructive evaluation (NDE); Radial basis function (RBF) network

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; FEEDFORWARD NEURAL NETWORKS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MEDICAL IMAGING; MICROWAVES; NEURAL NETWORKS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORKS; SPHERES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVEGUIDES;

3-D MICROWAVE IMAGING; AIR BUBBLING; AVERAGE ERRORS; COMPLEX REFLECTION; COMPUTATIONAL EXPERIMENTS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN (FDTD) SIMULATION; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN ANALYSIS; MICROWAVE IMAGING; NON-DESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION (NDE); RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION (RBF) NETWORK; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NEURAL NETWORK; SPHERICAL INCLUSIONS; WAVE GUIDE SYSTEMS;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 52049101791     PISSN: 15311309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LMWC.2008.2002498     Document Type: Article

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