A computational investigation of microwave breast imaging using deformable reflector

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 554-562

  Arunachalam, Kavitha ^a   Udpa, Lalita ^b   Udpa, Satish S ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Michigan State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Deformable reflector; Microwave imaging; Tomography

Indexed keywords

ONCOLOGY; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

MICROWAVE BREAST IMAGING; MULTITRANSCEIVER DESIGNS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST EXAMINATION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEASUREMENT; MICROWAVE RADIATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY;

BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROWAVES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 38349000870     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2007.903702     Document Type: Article

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