D SLICED TOMOGRAPHIC INVERSE SCATTERING EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS

The problem of imaging three-dimensional strong scatterers by means of a two-dimensional sliced tomographic reconstruction algorithm is dealt with. In particular, the focus of the paper is on the experimental validation of the involved inversion algorithm thanks to measurements collected in a controlled environment. A simple strategy exploiting reconstructions obtained at different time instants in order to detect slowly moving scatterers is also experimentally validated.

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