Formal Compensation of Sensor-Related Interactions for Microwave Tomography

164 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1998.The reconstruction process is based on the Newton-Kantorovich method in which, from an initial distribution of the dielectric contrast, the difference between the measured and model-computed equivalent scattered fields is minimized. This formalism is presented for the two-dimensional scalar case and has been successively extended to the scalar and vector three-dimensional cases. The modeling of two experimental microwave imaging systems has been performed: one for medical imaging and the other for free-space dielectric characterization.Ope