Tissue sensing adaptive radar for breast cancer detection - Investigations of an improved skin-sensing method

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1308-1313

  Williams, Trevor C ^a,b   Fear, Elise C ^a,b   Westwick, David T ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Deconvolution; Microwave imaging; Radar; Tissue sensing

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; DECONVOLUTION; SKIN-SENSING ALGORITHM; TISSUE SENSING;

ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MICROWAVES; SKIN; TISSUE CULTURE; TUMORS;

RADAR;

EID: 33645900587     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2006.871224     Document Type: Article

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