Multistatic adaptive microwave imaging for early breast cancer detection

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1647-1657

  Xie, Yao ^a   Guo, Bin ^a   Xu, Luzhou ^a   Li, Jian ^a   Stoica, Petre ^b  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Breast cancer detection; Microwave imaging; Multistatic; Robust capon beamforming

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE INTERFERENCE; MICROWAVES; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; TUMORS;

BREAST CANCER DETECTION; MICROWAVE IMAGING; MULTISTATIC; ROBUST CAPON BEAMFORMING;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; MULTISTATIC ADAPTIVE MICROWAVE IMAGING; NOISE; QUANTITATIVE STUDY;

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: 33746658128     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2006.878058     Document Type: Article

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