Effect of lesion morphology on microwave signature in 2-D ultra-wideband breast imaging

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 55, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2011-2021

  Chen, Yifan ^a,b   Gunawan, Erry ^c   Low, Kay Soon ^c   Wang, Shih Chang ^d   Soh, Cheong Boon ^c   Putti, Thomas Choudary ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

^b GUANGXI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Breast cancer detection; Complex natural resonances (CNRs); Lesion classification; Lesion modeling; Ultra wideband (UWB) microwave imaging

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; MICROWAVES;

BREAST CANCER DETECTION; BREAST IMAGING; BREAST MASSES; CLEAN ALGORITHMS; COMPACT SHAPE; DELAY INTERVALS; GRADUAL TRANSITIONS; MALIGNANT LESIONS; MALIGNANT MASSES; MULTILAYER (ML); NUMERICAL EXAMPLES; SHARP TRANSITION; SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS; TARGET RESPONSE; TIME RESPONSES; ULTRA- WIDEBAND (UWB);

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST LESION; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROWAVE RADIATION; ULTRA WIDEBAND MICROWAVE IMAGING;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MICROWAVES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 47649118865     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2008.921136     Document Type: Article

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