Two-dimensional microwave imaging based on hybrid scatterer representation and differential evolution

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 58, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 3289-3298

  Semnani, Abbas ^a   Rekanos, Ioannis T ^b   Kamyab, Manoochehr ^a   Papadopoulos, Theseus G ^b  

^a K N TOOSI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Differential evolution (DE); finite difference time domain (FDTD); inverse scattering; microwave imaging

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL EVOLUTION; EXPANSION COEFFICIENTS; FIELD MEASUREMENT; FINE GRIDS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN; FOURIER EXPANSION; FOURIER-SERIES EXPANSION; FUNCTION EXPANSION; GLOBAL OPTIMIZER; HYBRID METHOD; ILL-POSEDNESS; INITIAL ESTIMATE; INVERSE SCATTERING; INVERSE SCATTERING PROBLEMS; MICROWAVE IMAGING; NUMERICAL RESULTS; RECONSTRUCTION ERROR; SOLUTION SPACE;

BIOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; EXPANSION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; FOURIER SERIES; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

SCATTERING;

EID: 77957781790     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2010.2055793     Document Type: Article

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