Two-dimensional FDTD analysis of a pulsed microwave confocal system for breast cancer detection: Fixed-focus and antenna-array sensors

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1470-1479

  Hagness, Susan C ^a,c   Taflove, Alien ^b   Bridges, Jack E ^b  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison ^*  (United States)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

^c Interstitial Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Biom dical electromagnetic imaging; Cancer; FDTD methods; Microwave antenna arrays; Numerical analysis; Scattering; Tumors

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; ELECTROMAGNETISM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; ONCOLOGY; PERMITTIVITY; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; SENSORS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TISSUE;

BIOMEDICAL ELECTROMAGNETIC IMAGING; BREAST CANCER; MALIGNANT TUMORS; MICROWAVE ANTENNA ARRAYS; PULSED MICROWAVE CONFOCAL SYSTEM;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIELECTRIC CONSTANT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAMMOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; SENSOR; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 0032403014     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/10.730440     Document Type: Article

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