Estimating the breast surface using UWB microwave monostatic backscatter measurements

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 247-256

  Winters, David W ^a   Shea, Jacob D ^a   Madsen, Ernest L ^b   Frank, Gary R ^b   Van Veen, Barry D ^a   Hagness, Susan C ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomedical applications of electromagnetic radiation; Biomedical electromagnetic imaging; Biomedical measurements; Breast cancer; Microwave imaging; Spline functions; Ultrawideband (UWB)

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; MEDICAL IMAGING; MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; TISSUE;

BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; BIOMEDICAL ELECTROMAGNETIC IMAGING; BIOMEDICAL MEASUREMENTS; BREAST CANCER; MICROWAVE IMAGING; SPLINE FUNCTIONS; ULTRAWIDEBAND (UWB);

ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREAST; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIELECTRIC CONSTANT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MICROWAVE RADIATION; RADIATION SCATTERING;

BREAST; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROWAVES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 37349108597     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2007.901028     Document Type: Article

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