Reconstruction quality and spectral content of an electromagnetic time-domain inversion algorithm

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1594-1604

  Fhager, Andreas ^a   Hashemzadeh, Parham ^a   Persson, Mikael ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

FDTD methods; Microwave imaging; Microwave measurements; Transient analysis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE CONTROL; ELECTROMAGNETIC COMPATIBILITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEDICAL PROBLEMS; TUMORS;

FDTD METHODS; MICROWAVE IMAGING; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENTS; TRANSIENT ANALYSIS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EXPERIMENTATION; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; ILLUMINATION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MICROWAVE RADIATION; SIMULATION; SPECTRUM; TIME;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROWAVES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33746628575     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2006.878079     Document Type: Article

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