Finite-element contrast source inversion method for microwave imaging

Inverse Problems

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Zakaria, Amer ^a   Gilmore, Colin ^b   LoVetri, Joe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b Medical Physics   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY TRIANGULAR MESHES; BACKGROUND MEDIUM; BOUNDARY SHAPES; CONJUGATE GRADIENT; CONTRAST SOURCE INVERSION; DIFFERENTIAL OPERATORS; DISCRETIZATIONS; FINITE-ELEMENT; GRADIENT OPERATORS; HELMHOLTZ; HELMHOLTZ OPERATORS; INVERSION ALGORITHM; LINEAR BASIS FUNCTION; MATRIX; MATRIX EQUATIONS; MICROWAVE IMAGING; MICROWAVE TOMOGRAPHY; NODAL VALUES; SCATTERED ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; TRANSVERSE MAGNETIC;

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; IMAGING SYSTEMS; TOMOGRAPHY;

MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS;

EID: 78049447678     PISSN: 02665611     EISSN: 13616420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0266-5611/26/11/115010     Document Type: Article

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