Tissue sensing adaptive radar for breast cancer detection-experimental investigation of simple tumor models

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 53, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 3312-3319

  Sill, Jeff M ^a,b   Fear, Elise C ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Breast cancer detection; Experimental verification; Microwave imaging; Tissue sensing adaptive radar

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER DETECTION; EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION; MICROWAVE IMAGING; TISSUE SENSING ADAPTIVE RADAR;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TISSUE; TUMORS;

RADAR;

EID: 28144448370     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2005.857330     Document Type: Conference Paper

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