Time of arrival data fusion method for two-dimensional ultrawideband breast cancer detection

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 55, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2852-2865

  Chen, Yifan ^a   Gunawan, Erry ^a   Low, Kay Soon ^a   Wang, Shih Chang ^b   Soh, Cheong Boon ^a   Thi, Lin Lin ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Breast cancer detection; Data fusion; Statistical clutter modeling; Time of arrival (TOA); Two dimensional (2 D) analysis; Ultrawideband (UWB) microwave imaging

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DATA FUSION; DECONVOLUTION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; STATISTICAL METHODS; TUMORS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

BREAST TUMOR DETECTION; TIME OF ARRIVAL; ULTRAWIDEBAND MICROWAVE IMAGING;

MICROWAVES;

EID: 35348874873     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2007.905868     Document Type: Article

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