An ultra wideband microwave imaging system for breast cancer detection

IEICE Transactions on Communications

Volumn E90-B, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2376-2381

  Khor, Wee Chang ^a   Bialkowski, Marek E ^a   Abbosh, Amin ^a   Seman, Norhudah ^a   Crozier, Stuart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antennas; Biomedical imaging; Cancer; Microwave imaging

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; BROADBAND NETWORKS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASES; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; PLASTIC CONTAINERS; SLOT ANTENNAS; TRACKING RADAR;

BIOMEDICAL IMAGING; BREAST CANCER DETECTION; CANCER; HIGH DIELECTRIC CONSTANTS; LOW DIELECTRIC CONSTANT MATERIALS; MICROWAVE IMAGING; TWO DIMENSIONAL IMAGES; ULTRAWIDEBAND MICROWAVES;

ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

EID: 50649108666     PISSN: 09168516     EISSN: 17451345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ietcom/e90-b.9.2376     Document Type: Conference Paper

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