A computational study of time reversal techniques for ultra-wideband microwave hyperthermia treatment of breast cancer

IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 312-316

  Kosmas, Panagiotis ^a,b   Zastrow, Earl ^a   Hagness, Susan C ^a   Van Veen, Barry D ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Microwave hyperthermia; Space time beamforming; Time reversal

Indexed keywords

BEAMFORMING; BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; LOCATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; MICROWAVES; QUANTUM THEORY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

BEAMFORMING TECHNIQUES; BREAST CANCER; BREAST PHANTOMS; COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAINS; MICROWAVE HYPERTHERMIA; MICROWAVE HYPERTHERMIA TREATMENTS; MULTIPLE ANTENNAS; SIMULATION BASED; SPACE-TIME BEAMFORMING; THERMAL SIMULATIONS; TIME REVERSAL; TIME REVERSED; TRANSMITTED WAVES; WIDE BANDS; WIDEBAND SOURCES;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 47849098279     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SSP.2007.4301270     Document Type: Conference Paper

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