Preliminary investigations of tissue sensing adaptive radar for breast tumor detection

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn 4, Issue , 2003, Pages 3787-3790

  Fear, E C ^a   Sill, J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Breast cancer detection; Microwave imaging

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INTEGRATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MICROWAVES; MOISTURE; RADAR; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TUMORS;

ADAPTIVE RADAR; BREAST CANCER DETECTION; MICROWAVE IMAGING;

TISSUE;

EID: 1542360062     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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