Microwave imaging for tissue assessment: Initial evaluation in multitarget tissue-equivalent phantoms

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 878-890

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

^a IEEE

^b DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^c NORRIS COTTON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MICROWAVES; TISSUE;

MICROWAVE IMAGING; MULTITARGET TISSUE EQUIVALENT PHANTOMS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ELECTRICITY; GEOMETRY; ILLUMINATION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; MICROWAVE RADIATION; PHANTOM; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROWAVES; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING;

EID: 0030249004     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/10.532122     Document Type: Article

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