Microwave tomography is a novel, early stage development way of imaging with a number of potentially attractive medical applications. In particular, microwave imaging (MI) of the human head has attracted a significant research interest in the latest years mainly oriented on the design of antenna elements and arrays, imaging using ultra-wide band radar techniques, and real-time monitoring. The accurate reconstruction of the properties of the head tissues relies heavily on precise mathematical and numerical modeling of the interaction between electromagnetic waves and the human body in high frequency regime.
The three challenges addressed by these applications are methodological and numerical development robust inversion tools, development of general parallel open source simulation codes and the design of antenna elements and arrays and simulations using anatomical phantoms
The aim of this workshop was to gather specialists on numerical methods, high performance computing, inverse problems and microwave imaging.
