Extraction of calibration waveform for confocal microwave imaging for early breast cancer detection

IEEE 2007 International Symposium on Microwave, Antenna, Propagation and EMC Technologies for Wireless Communications, MAPE

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1287-1290

  Xia, Xiao ^a,b   Kikkawa, Takamaro ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Breast cancer detection; Calibration; Confocal algorithm; Finite difference time domain (FDTD); Microwave imaging; Ultra wideband (UWB)

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; DISEASES; ELECTROMAGNETIC COMPATIBILITY; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MICROWAVES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TUMORS;

BREAST CANCER DETECTION; CONFOCAL MICROWAVE IMAGING; EARLY BREAST CANCER; EARLY-STAGE BREAST CANCER; ELECTRIC PARAMETERS; FINITE -DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAINS (FDTD); MICROWAVE IMAGING; ULTRA WIDEBAND SIGNALS;

ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

EID: 47649086443     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MAPE.2007.4393509     Document Type: Conference Paper

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