Recent advances in short-range microwave imaging in europe

This paper reports the content of a lecture presented at the 1995 International Conference and Exhibition on Electronic Measurement and Instrumentation, held in Shanghai, China in 1995. The paper presents(thanks to the courtesy of several scientists) some of the most significant results recently obtained in the field of short range microwave imaging. The overview concerns the research activity carried out in Europe and is focused on microwave imaging for non destructive testing, civil engineering, and scientific and medical applications. This type of imaging is characterized by a relatively short distance between the object to be detected and the probes.