Ultrasound-guided microwave imaging of breast cancer: Tissue phantom and pilot clinical experiments

Medical Physics

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 2528-2535

  Jiang, Huabei ^a   Li, Changqing ^a   Pearlstone, David ^b   Fajardo, Laurie L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Palmetto Surgical Association   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MICROWAVES; PHANTOMS; TUMORS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

CLINICAL EXPERIMENTS; MICROWAVE IMAGING SYSTEMS; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TARGET AND BACKGROUND; ULTRASOUND GUIDED; ULTRASOUND IMAGING; ULTRASOUND SYSTEM;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; B SCAN; BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST CANCER; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAMMOGRAPHY; MICROWAVE RADIATION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 23944517227     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1984349     Document Type: Article

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