A broadband high-frequency electrical impedance tomography system for breast imaging

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 650-659

  Halter, Ryan J ^a   Hartov, Alex ^a   Paulsen, Keith D ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

3 D imaging; Breast imaging; Electrical impedance tomography; High frequency electrical impedance tomography (EIT)

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; PATHOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY;

BIO-ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE SIGNATURES; CELLULAR MORPHOLOGIES; ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY (EIT); SIGNAL FREQUENCIES;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ARTICLE; BREAST; COMPUTER ASSISTED IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; IMAGING; PHANTOM; SPECTROSCOPY;

BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY, IMPEDANCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 38349006623     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2007.903516     Document Type: Article

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