A Microwave Tomographic Imaging Approach for Multibistatic Configuration: The Choice of the Frequency Step

This paper deals with the application of a frequency-domain microwave-tomography-imaging algorithm to a multibistatic configuration in ground-penetrating-radar applications. First, the authors formulate the inverse problem as a linear one by exploiting the Born approximation. Then, the reconstruction capabilities of the solution algorithm are investigated, and an optimal frequency step to be adopted for the reconstruction is discussed and determined. Finally, inversion results are presented with synthetic data obtained from time-domain simulations and then Fourier transformed in frequency domain

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