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The imaging is herein formulated as a linear inverse scattering problem and solved in a regularized way through the truncated singular value decomposition inversion scheme. Specifically, two different imaging schemes based on an incoherent fusion of the tomographic images or a fully coherent data processing are herein developed and compared. 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