A two-stage microwave image reconstruction procedure for improved internal feature extraction

Medical Physics

Volumn 28, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 2358-2369

  Meaney, Paul M ^a   Demidenko, Eugene ^b   Yagnamurthy, Navin K ^a   Li, Dun ^a   Fanning, Margaret W ^a   Paulsen, Keith D ^a,c  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c NORRIS COTTON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast imaging; Microwave; Penalty term; Regularization; Two stage

Indexed keywords

BEAMFORMING; BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING SYSTEMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MICROWAVES; SCALES (WEIGHING INSTRUMENTS);

BREAST IMAGING; ITERATIVE IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MICROWAVE IMAGING SYSTEMS; PENALTY TERM; REGULARIZATION; REGULARIZATION PARAMETERS; SPATIAL FILTERING TECHNIQUES; WEIGHTED EUCLIDEAN DISTANCE;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BAYES THEOREM; CALCULATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MICROWAVE RADIATION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION;

EID: 0035188629     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1413520     Document Type: Article

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