An inexact Newton-based approach to microwave imaging within the contrast source formulation

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 57, Issue 4 PART 2, 2009, Pages 1122-1132

  Bozza, Giovanni ^a   Pastorino, Matteo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Contrast source formulation; Electromagnetic inverse scattering; Newton methods

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER MEMORIES; CONTRAST SOURCE FORMULATION; DIELECTRIC OBJECTS; ELECTRIC FIELD INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC INVERSE SCATTERING; EXPERIMENTAL DATUM; INEXACT-NEWTON METHODS; INVERSE SCATTERING PROBLEMS; LINEARIZED EQUATIONS; MICROWAVE IMAGING; NEWTON METHODS; NUMERICAL RESULTS;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MICROWAVE FREQUENCIES; NEWTON-RAPHSON METHOD;

SCATTERING;

EID: 65549122996     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2009.2015820     Document Type: Article

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