Tissue-mimicking phantom materials for narrowband and ultrawideband microwave applications

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 18, 2005, Pages 4245-4258

  Lazebnik, Mariya ^a   Madsen, Ernest L ^b   Frank, Gary R ^b   Hagness, Susan C ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MICROWAVES; OILS AND FATS; OSMOSIS; TUMORS;

BREAST CANCER DETECTION; MICROWAVE FREQUENCY; OIL-IN-GELATIN DISPERSIONS; PHANTOM MATERIALS;

TISSUE;

GELATIN; OIL;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DIELECTRIC CONSTANT; DISPERSION; MICROWAVE RADIATION; MOLECULAR STABILITY; OSMOSIS; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOFT TISSUE;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GELATIN; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MICROWAVES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OILS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

EID: 24644517473     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/50/18/001     Document Type: Article

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