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Tomographic microwave imaging with incorporated prior spatial information

Golnabi et al., 2013

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8188213313861631150
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Golnabi A
Meaney P
Paulsen K
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IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

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We have implemented a soft prior regularization technique for microwave tomographic imaging that exploits spatial prior information from alternative imaging modalities. We have previously demonstrated in both simulation and phantom experiments that this approach is …
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