3D breast microwave imaging based on wavefront reconstruction

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 2542-2545

  Flores Tapia, Daniel ^a   Thomas, Gabriel ^a   Ashtari, Ali ^a   Pistorius, Stephen ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b CANCERCARE MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; BREAST TISSUES; MICROWAVE FREQUENCY RANGE; WAVEFRONT RECONSTRUCTION;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVES; TUMORS; WAVEFRONTS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREAST; BREAST TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EQUIPMENT; EVALUATION STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; MICROWAVE RADIATION; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICROWAVES; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34047110426     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2006.260509     Document Type: Conference Paper

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