eprintid: 405
rev_number: 7
eprint_status: archive
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datestamp: 2005-07-15
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type: techreport
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creators_name: Benedetti, Manuel
creators_name: Donelli, Massimo
creators_name: Franceschini, Gabriele
creators_name: Pastorino, Matteo
creators_name: Massa, Andrea
title: Effective Exploitation of the a-priori Information through a Microwave Imaging Procedure Based on the Smw for Nde/Ndt Applications
ispublished: unpub
subjects: TU
full_text_status: public
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.
date: 2005-05
date_type: published
institution: University of Trento
department: informaticat
refereed: TRUE
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citation:   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.  [Technical Report]    (Unpublished)  
document_url: http://www.eledia.org/students-reports/405/1/DIT-05-006.pdf