A wavefront reconstruction method for 3-D cylindrical subsurface radar imaging

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1908-1925

  Flores Tapia, Daniel ^a   Thomas, Gabriel ^a   Pistorius, Stephen ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b CancerCare Manitoba ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

Image reconstruction; Microwave imaging; Near field; Subsurface imaging

Indexed keywords

IMAGING TECHNIQUES; RADAR; RADIO; REFLECTION; REPAIR; RESTORATION; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TRAJECTORIES;

CYLINDRICAL SCAN; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; HIGH CONTRAST; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MICROWAVE IMAGING; NEAR FIELD; NOVEL APPLICATIONS; RADAR TECHNOLOGIES; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; SAMPLING CONSTRAINTS; SIGNAL TRAVEL TIMES; SPATIAL RESOLUTION SR); SUBSURFACE IMAGING; SUBSURFACE RADAR; WAVE-FRONT RECONSTRUCTION;

RADAR IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TELECOMMUNICATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; RADAR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 52649157071     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2008.2002307     Document Type: Article

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