Hybrid microwave tomography technique for breast cancer imaging

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

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 4273-4276

  Sabouni, Abas ^a   Flores Tapia, Daniel ^a   Noghanian, Sima ^a   Thomas, Gabriel ^a   Pistorius, Stephen ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b CANCERCARE MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER DETECTION; HYBRID MICROWAVE TOMOGRAPHY; INVERSE SCATTERING METHOD;

DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MEDICAL IMAGING; MICROWAVES; OPTIMIZATION; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TUMORS;

TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; MICROWAVE RADIATION; TELECOMMUNICATION; TOMOGRAPHY;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROWAVES; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADAR; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 34047111319     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2006.260615     Document Type: Conference Paper

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