Multifrequency microwave-induced thermal acoustic imaging for breast cancer detection

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 54, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2000-2010

  Guo, Bin ^a   Li, Jian ^a   Zmuda, Henry ^a   Sheplak, Mark ^a  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer detection; Finite difference time domain (FDTD) methods; Multifrequency adaptive and robust technology (MART); Robust capon beamforming (RCB); Thermal acoustic imaging (TAI)

Indexed keywords

BEAMFORMING; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; INFRARED IMAGING; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MEDICAL IMAGING; ONCOLOGY; TUMORS;

BREAST CANCER DETECTION; MULTIFREQUENCY ADAPTIVE AND ROBUST TECHNOLOGY (MART); ROBUST CAPON BEAMFORMING (RCB); THERMAL ACOUSTIC IMAGING; THERMAL ACOUSTIC IMAGING (TAI);

ACOUSTIC IMAGING;

ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER CYTODIAGNOSIS; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EARLY CANCER; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MICROWAVE INDUCED THERMAL ACOUSTIC IMAGING;

ACOUSTICS; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROWAVES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; THERMOGRAPHY;

EID: 35548937345     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2007.895108     Document Type: Article

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