Synthetic aperture diffraction tomography for three-dimensional imaging

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 465, Issue 2109, 2009, Pages 2877-2895

  Simonetti, Francesco ^a,b   Huang, Lianjie ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Image formation; Tomography; Wave scattering

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

COMPUTER POWER; CURRENT LIMITATION; CYLINDRICAL OBJECTS; HARDWARE TECHNOLOGY; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGE; IMAGE FORMATION; NEW APPROACHES; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; SENSOR TECHNOLOGIES; STATE-OF-THE-ART SYSTEM; SYNTHETIC APERTURE TECHNIQUES; THEORETICAL FORMULATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECT; THREE-DIMENSIONAL RECONSTRUCTION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL PROBLEM; TWO-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURES; WAVE SCATTERING; WORLD WAR II;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 70349418585     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2009.0163     Document Type: Article

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