considering the nonlinear hyperelastic or viscoelastic nature of soft tissues has an important effect on modeling results. in medicalapplications, accounting nonlinearity begets an ill posed problem, due to absence of external force. myocardium can be consideredas a hyperelastic material, and variational approaches are proposed to estimate stiffness matrix, which take into account the linearand...

The array factor (sidelobe level, SLL) of a linear array is optimized using modified continuous genetic algorithms in this work. The amplitudes and phases of the currents as well as the separation of the antennas are all taken as variables to be controlled. The results of the design using modified GA versions are compared with other methods. Two design problems were studied using several contin...

Digital frame cameras with resolution and ground coverage comparable to those associated with analogue aerial cameras are not yet available. Therefore, linear array scanners have been introduced on aerial and space borne platforms to overcome these drawbacks. Linear array scanner scenes are generated by stitching together successively captured one-dimensional images as the scanner moves. Rigoro...

introduction: image quality and accuracy of in vivo activity quantification in spect are affected by collimator penetration and scatter components, especially in high energy imaging. these phenomena highly depend on the collimator characteristic and photon energy. the presence of penetrated and scattered photons from collimator in spect images degrades spatial resolution, contrast and image qua...

The application of imaging radar to microwave level gauging represents a prospect of increasing the reliability of target detection. The aperture size of the used sensor determines the underlying azimuthal resolution. In consequence, when FMCW-based multistatic radar (FMCW: frequency modulated continuous wave) is used, the number of antennas dictates this essential property of an imaging system...

Several techniques have been used for terrestrial panoramic imaging. Known methods for panoramic imaging include: mosaicking/stitching of a rotated frame array CCD camera, mirror technology including single mirror and multi mirrors, near 180 degrees with large frame cameras or one shot with fish-eye lens and recently a linear array-based panoramic camera by horizontal rotation. Up to now, the t...