Image reconstruction of inhomogeneous biaxial dielectric cylinders buried in a slab medium

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Sun, Chi Hsien^a | Chiu, Chien-Ching^{a; *} | Lin, Chun Jen^a

Affiliations: [a] Electrical Engineering Department, Tamkang University, Tamsui, Taipei, Taiwai

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author. E-mail: chiu@ee.tku.edu.tw

Abstract: The image reconstruction of inhomogeneous biaxial dielectric cylinders buried in a slab medium is investigated. A biaxial dielectric cylinder of unknown permittivities buried in a slab scatters a group of unrelated incident waves from outside. The scattered field is recorded outside the slab. By proper arrangement of the various unrelated incident fields, the difficulties of ill-posedness and nonlinearity are circumvented, and the permittivity distribution can be reconstructed through simple matrix operations. The algorithm is based on the moment method and the unrelated illumination method. Numerical results are given to demonstrate the capability of the inverse algorithm. Good reconstructed results are obtained even in the presence of additive Gaussian random noise in measured data. In addition, the effect of noise on the reconstruction result is also investigated.

DOI: 10.3233/JAE-2010-1085

Journal: International Journal of Applied Electromagnetics and Mechanics, vol. 34, no. 1-2, pp. 33-48, 2010