title: Prediction of electromagnetic field distributions inside biological bodies by using an inverse scattering procedure based on a statistical cooling algorithm.
abstract: This paper presents an inverse scattering procedure based on a statistical cooling algorithm to predict the electromagnetic field inside a biological body. By knowing only the scattered electric field distribution in a set of observation points external to the biological model, this method seems to be able to predict the electromagnetic field distributions in the investigation domain, minimizing a suitable cost function. To this end, a numerical statistical procedure is used, which allows to treat functions with a large number of unknowns in an efficient manner and to exploit the so called a priori knowledge in the reconstruction process. Some preliminary results are reported, concerning simplified biological geometries, which clearly show the capabilities and effectiveness, and also the current limitations of the proposed approach. Finally, further advances for the proposed imaging technique are indicated and discussed.
authors.affiliation: Interuniversity Center for the Interaction Between Electromagnetic Fields and Biosystems at DIBE, Genoa, Italy. caorsi@dibe.unige.it
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Caorsi
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Massa
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003198:Computer Simulation; D004553:Electric Conductivity; D004574:Electromagnetic Fields; D005544:Forecasting; D006257:Head / Q000528:radiation effects; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D019047:Phantoms, Imaging; D011830:Radiation Effects; D012542:Scattering, Radiation; D013696:Temperature