Antenna configurations for Ultra Wide Band radar detection of breast cancer

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7169, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Conceição, Raquel C ^a   O'Halloran, Martin ^a   Glavin, Martin ^a   Jones, Edward ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Antenna Configurations; Breast Cancer Detection; Finite Difference Time Domain modelling; Ultra Wide Band Radar

Indexed keywords

2D ARRAYS; ANTENNA CONFIGURATIONS; BACK-SCATTERED; BACKSCATTERED SIGNAL; BEAM FORMERS; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CANCER DETECTION; CIRCULAR ARRAYS; DELAY AND SUMS; DIELECTRIC CONTRASTS; DIFFERENT SIZES; EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN MODELLING; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN MODELS; PLANAR CONFIGURATIONS; PRONE POSITION; QUANTITATIVE METHOD; SUPINE POSITION; TEST CONDITION; TUMOUR TISSUE; TUMOURS; ULTRA WIDE BAND RADAR; ULTRA WIDEBAND RADARS; VISUAL INSPECTION;

ANTENNA ARRAYS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; TRACKING RADAR; TUMORS; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

MICROWAVE ANTENNAS;

EID: 66249116664     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.808253     Document Type: Conference Paper

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