Transmission and reflection diffraction tomography in breast imaging

BioMedical Engineering and Informatics: New Development and the Future - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on BioMedical Engineering and Informatics, BMEI 2008

Volumn 2, Issue , 2008, Pages 723-727

  Simonetti, Francesco ^a   Huang, Lianjie ^b   Duric, Neb ^c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; COLLOIDS; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; GELATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MEDICAL IMAGING; REFLECTION; TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS;

INFORMATICS; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 51649086958     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BMEI.2008.114     Document Type: Conference Paper

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