A GENERALIZED ART ALGORITHM FOR INVERSE SCATTERING PROBLEMS RELATED TO BURIED CYLINDRICAL BODIES

An inverse scattering problem whose aim is to recover the electromagne tic properties of buried cylindrical bodies is addressed. The problem is first reduced to a system of operator equations and then its soluti on is obtained through an iterative method which is a generalization o f the algebraic reconstruction technique in diffraction tomography to the present problem. The use of such an iterative method enables us to find a unique solution with a small number of measurements. Some illu strative examples show the accuracy and the applicability of the metho d.