Recent European developments in active microwave imaging for industrial, scientific, and medical applications

The authors present some representative results which have been obtained during the last decade and discuss the general trends concerning their continuation and extension in the next few years. The research effort has been conducted within the framework of national or European cooperative programs at three levels: basic research in reconstruction algorithms, development of imaging equipment, and feasibility studies and evaluation of prototypes. Special emphasis is given to equipment, which the authors believe provides the real measure of the impact of the technologies. They discuss biomedical applications, buried object detection, vision and robotics applications, and applications to nondestructive testing and quality control of materials