Microwave imaging via adaptive beamforming methods for breast cancer detection

PIERS 2005 - Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 350-353

  Guo, Bin ^a   Wang, Yanwei ^a   Li, Jian ^a   Stoica, Petre ^b   Wu, Renbiao ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c CIVIL AVIATION UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAMFORMING; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; MICROWAVES; PIERS; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ADAPTIVE BEAMFORMING; ADAPTIVE METHODS; AMPLITUDE AND PHASE ESTIMATIONS; BACKSCATTERED SIGNALS; BREAST CANCER DETECTIONS; BREAST TISSUES; CAPON BEAMFORMING; LOW RESOLUTIONS; MICROWAVE IMAGING; SIDELOBE LEVELS; WIDE BANDS;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

EID: 55749084569     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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