Effective Exploitation of the a-priori Information through a Microwave Imaging Procedure Based on the Smw for Nde/Ndt Applications

Benedetti, Manuel and Donelli, Massimo and Franceschini, Gabriele and Pastorino, Matteo and Massa, Andrea (2005) Effective Exploitation of the a-priori Information through a Microwave Imaging Procedure Based on the Smw for Nde/Ndt Applications. UNSPECIFIED. (Unpublished)

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    Abstract

    This paper presents an innovative microwave technique, which is suitable for the detection of defects in non-destructive-evaluation (NDT/NDE) applications where a lot of a-priori information is available. The proposed approach is based on the equations of the inverse scattering problem, which are solved by means of a minimization procedure based on a Genetic Algorithm (GA). To reduce the number of problem unknowns, the available a-priori information is efficiently exploited by introducing an updating procedure for the electric field computation based on the Sherman-Morrison-Woodbury (SWM) formula. The results of a representative set of numerical experiments as well as comparisons with state-of-the-art methods are reported. They confirm the effectiveness, the feasibility and the robustness of the proposed approach, which some interesting features by a computational point-of-view, as well.

    Item Type: Departmental Technical Report
    Department or Research center: Information Engineering and Computer Science
    Subjects: Q Science > QC Physics (General) > QC661 Electromagnetic Theory
    Q Science > QC Physics (General) > QC760 Electromagnetism
    Report Number: DIT-05-006
    Repository staff approval on: 15 Jul 2005

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