Greens function decomposition for a new rewriting of inverse scattering equations

Abstract

In this paper, a new inversion model for 2D microwave imaging is introduced by means of a convenient rewriting of the usual Lippmann Schwinger integral scattering equation. Such model is derived by decomposing the Greens function and the corresponding internal radiation operator in two different contributions. In fact, one of them can be easily computed from the collected scattered data. In case of lossless backgrounds, the resulting model turns out to be more convenient than the traditional one, as it exhibits a lower degree of nonlinearity with respect to parameters embedding the unknown dielectric characteristics. This interesting property suggests its exploitation in the solution of the inverse scattering problem. The achievable performances are tested by comparing the proposed model with the usual one based on the Lippman-Schwinger equation in both cases of linearly approximated and full non-linear frameworks. Both numerical and experimental data are considered.