A hybrid approach to 3D microwave imaging by using linear sampling and ACO

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 56, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 3224-3232

  Brignone, Massimo ^a,b   Bozza, Giovanni ^b   Randazzo, Andrea ^b   Piana, Michele ^a,b   Pastorino, Matteo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ant colony optimization (ACO); Inverse scattering; Linear sampling method (LSM); Stochastic methods

Indexed keywords

MICROWAVES; OPTIMIZATION; SAMPLING; STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

3-D MICROWAVE IMAGING; ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION (ACO); ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; HOMOGENEOUS DIELECTRICS; HYBRID APPROACHES; INVERSE SCATTERING; LINEAR SAMPLING METHOD (LSM); LINEAR SAMPLING METHODS; LINEAR SAMPLINGS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; OPTIMIZATION CAPABILITIES; STOCHASTIC METHODS; STOCHASTIC PROCEDURES;

GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 54249088049     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2008.929504     Document Type: Article

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