Breast surface estimation for radar-based breast imaging systems

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1678-1686

  Williams, Trevor C ^a   Sill, Jeff M ^a   Fear, Elise C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Breast cancer detection; Breast surface estimate; Outline creation; Surface detection; Tissue sensing adaptive radar

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICROWAVES; ONCOLOGY; TISSUE;

OUTLINE CREATION; TISSUE SENSING ADAPTIVE RADAR;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREAST; IMAGING SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MICROWAVE RADIATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TUMOR SCINTISCANNING;

BREAST; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROWAVES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RADAR; RADIOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 44349113584     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2008.919883     Document Type: Article

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