Importance of phase unwrapping for the reconstruction of microwave tomographic images

Biomedical Optics Express

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 315-330

  Grzegorczyk, Tomasz M ^a   Meaney, Paul M ^b,c   Jeon, Soon Ik ^d   Geimer, Shireen D ^b   Paulsen, Keith D ^b,c  

^a Delpsi LLC   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^c Microwave Imaging System Technologies Inc   (United States)

^d Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETISM; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; TOMOGRAPHY;

CLINICAL DATA; CLOSED FORM SOLUTIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC PROPERTIES; EMPIRICAL FINDINGS; INITIAL GUESS; LEAST SQUARES; LOGARITHMIC TRANSFORMATIONS; MEASURED SIGNALS; MICROWAVE IMAGING; ONE DIMENSION; PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS; PHASE UNWRAPPING; POOR PERFORMANCE; TARGET SIZE; THEORETICAL EXPLANATION; THREE DIMENSIONS; TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGES;

METADATA;

EID: 80051874246     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21567085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/BOE.2.000315     Document Type: Article

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