Reconstruction of microwave absorption properties in heterogeneous tissue for microwave-induced thermo-acoustic tomography

Progress in Electromagnetics Research

Volumn 130, Issue , 2012, Pages 225-240

  Wang, J G ^a   Zhao, Z Q ^a   Song, J ^a   Zhu, X Z ^a   Nie, Z P ^a   Liu, Q H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; ALGEBRA; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MICROWAVES; NUMERICAL METHODS; REFRACTION; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY;

ACOUSTIC REFRACTION EFFECTS; FAST MARCHING METHODS; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; HETEROGENEOUS TISSUES; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; MICROWAVE ABSORPTION PROPERTIES; SIMULTANEOUS ALGEBRAIC RECONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUE; TIME REVERSAL MIRRORS;

MICROWAVE ACOUSTICS;

EID: 84866556538     PISSN: 10704698     EISSN: 15598985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2528/PIER12062704     Document Type: Article

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