Tomographic microwave imaging with incorporated prior spatial information

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 2129-2136

  Golnabi, Amir H ^a,b   Meaney, Paul M ^a   Paulsen, Keith D ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

A priori spatial information; image reconstruction; microwave imaging; multimodality imaging; regularization; soft prior; tissue dielectric properties

Indexed keywords

MICROWAVE IMAGING; MULTI-MODALITY IMAGING; REGULARIZATION; SOFT PRIOR; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS;

DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; EXPERIMENTS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; TISSUE;

TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84877733044     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2013.2247413     Document Type: Article

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