An Active Microwave Imaging System for Reconstruction of 2-D Electrical Property Distributions

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 1995, Pages 1017-1026

  Meaney, Paul M ^a   Paulsen, Keith D ^a,b   Hartov, Alexander ^b,c   Crane, Robert K ^d  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NORRIS COTTON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PATIENT TREATMENT; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; TISSUE;

DYNAMIC RANGE; ELECTRIC PROPERTY DISTRIBUTION; HYPERTHERMIA; MICROWAVE IMAGING SYSTEM; RECEIVE CHANNEL; TRANSIT CHANNEL;

MICROWAVES;

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELECTRIC FIELD; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MICROWAVE RADIATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0029380447     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/10.464376     Document Type: Article

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