3D EIT for breast cancer imaging: System, measurements, and reconstruction

Microwave and Optical Technology Letters

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 3261-3271

  Ye, Gang ^a   Lim, Kim Hwa ^a   George Jr , Rhett T ^a   Ybarra, Gary A ^a   Joines, William T ^a   Liu, Qing Huo ^a  

^a Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer detection; Breast cancer imaging; EIT; Electrical impedance tomography; Imaging; Inversion; Spectral element method

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER DETECTION; BREAST CANCER IMAGING; EIT; ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGING; INVERSION; SPECTRAL ELEMENT METHOD;

DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY;

ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE;

EID: 56349117967     PISSN: 08952477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mop.23932     Document Type: Article

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