A FEM simulation study of the optimization of the imaging attributes of a microwave radiometry system with possible functional imaging capabilities

Journal of Instrumentation

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Karathanasis, K T ^a   Karanasiou, I S ^a   Nikolaos K Uzunoglu, ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Models and simulations; Simulation methods and programs

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC PROPERTIES; ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRA; FOCUSING PROPERTIES; LEFT HANDED MATERIALS; LOSSLESS DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

BRAIN; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTROMAGNETISM; EXPERIMENTS; MICROWAVES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 70350640341     PISSN: 17480221     EISSN: 17480221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/4/06/P06005     Document Type: Article

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