Biomedical subjects

Rocco Pierri

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PubMed2003

Shape identification by physical optics: the two-dimensional TE case.

A method is provided for reconstruction of the shape of perfectly conducting objects in a homogeneous space starting from knowledge of the scattered far field under the incidence of TE-polarized plane waves. The Kirchhoff model of scattering permits linearization of the inverse problem, which is further simplified by adopting an asymptotic approximation. Thus the problem is tackled with an approach based on singular-value decomposition already developed for the TM case.

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PubMed2002

In-depth resolution from multifrequency Born fields scattered by a dielectric strip in the Fresnel zone.

The achievable depth resolution in reconstructing the permittivity profile of a dielectric strip under the Born approximation when data are collected in the Fresnel zone is studied. We consider a rectilinear measurement aperture and an orthogonal and centered rectilinear investigation domain. The roles of the aperture extent and frequency diversity are highlighted.

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PubMed2002

Imaging perfectly conducting objects as support of induced currents: Kirchhoff approximation and frequency diversity.

The problem of determining the shape of perfectly conducting objects from knowledge of the scattered electric field is considered. The formulation of the problem accommodates the nature of the distribution of the induced surface current density. Thus, as the unknown representing the object's contour, a single layer distribution is chosen so that the contour of the scatterer is described by its support. The nonlinear unknown-data mapping is then linearized by means of the Kirchhoff approximation, and the problem is recast as the inversion of a linear operator acting on a distribution space. An extension of the singular value decomposition approach to solve the linearized problem is provided and numerical results are presented.

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PubMed2002

Convergence properties of a quadratic approach to the inverse-scattering problem.

The local-minima question that arises in the framework of a quadratic approach to inverse-scattering problems is investigated. In particular, a sufficient condition for the absence of local minima is given, and some guidelines to ensure the reliability of the algorithm are outlined for the case of data not belonging to the range of the relevant quadratic operator. This is relevant also when an iterated solution procedure based on a quadratic approximation of the electromagnetic scattering at each step is considered.

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