Terahertz pulsed imaging and spectroscopy of breast tumors

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6386, Issue , 2006, Pages 638610-

  Wallace, Vincent P ^a   MacPherson, Emma ^a   Fitzgerald, Anthony J ^a   Lo, Thomas ^a   Provenzano, Elena ^b   Pinder, Sarah ^b   Purushotham, Anand ^c  

^a TERAVIEW LTD   (United Kingdom)

^b ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGING SYSTEMS; ONCOLOGY; OPTICAL CORRELATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RADIATION DETECTORS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TUMORS;

BREAST TUMORS; IMPULSE FUNCTIONS; TERAHERTZ RADIATION; WATER CONTENT;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 33846246665     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.687010     Document Type: Conference Paper

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