FDTD modeling of a coherent-Addition antenna array for early-stage detection of breast cancer

IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 1998 Digest - Antennas: Gateways to the Global Network - Held in conjunction with: USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting

Volumn 2, Issue , 1998, Pages 1220-1223

  Hagness, S C ^a   Taflove, A ^a   Bridges, J E ^b  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b Interstitial Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTENNA REFLECTORS; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; DISEASES; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; HISTOLOGY; MEDICAL IMAGING; MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; MICROWAVES; REFLECTION; TUMORS; ANTENNA ARRAYS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MAMMOGRAPHY; NONINVASIVE MEDICAL PROCEDURES; ONCOLOGY; REVERBERATION; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

BACK-SCATTERED; BREAST TISSUES; COHERENT ADDITION; ELLIPTICAL REFLECTORS; MICROWAVE SCATTERING; MICROWAVE SIGNALS; PULSED MICROWAVES; VARIABLE FOCUS;

ANTENNA ARRAYS; MICROWAVE ANTENNAS;

BREAST CANCER; COHERENT-ADDITION ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 0031622295     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APS.1998.702171     Document Type: Conference Paper

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