Numerical investigation of breast tumour detection using multi-static radar

Electronics Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 25, 2003, Pages 1787-1789

  Nilavalan, R ^a   Gbedemah, A ^a   Craddock, I J ^a   Li, X ^b   Hagness, S C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MICROWAVES; RECEIVING ANTENNAS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

BREAST CANCER DETECTION TECHNIQUE; MULTISTATIC RADAR;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 0345761761     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:20031183     Document Type: Article

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