Decisive success has been achieved in developing the subsurface near-field scanning tomography that overcomes the Rayleigh diffraction limit of a resolution. It is related to the transformation of the multifrequency inverse scattering problem to that for a complex-valued synthesized pulse (pseudopulse). It leads to the integral equation that has maxima in the depth dependence of its kernel and, hence, to the much better depth resolution of tomography. Moreover, the noise related to surface scattering is mainly suppressed in such an approach. This idea is realized here in the microwave subsurface tomography of 3D inhomogeneous dielectric structures. For homogeneous dielectric targets, this approach is applied to obtain holography images of their shape.
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