Phantoms for testing radar-based microwave breast imaging

Proceedings - 2009 13th International Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics and the Canadian Radio Sciences Meeting, ANTEM/URSI 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Croteau, J ^a   Sill, J ^b   Williams, T ^b   Fear, E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Microwave imaging; Phantoms

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; BREAST PHANTOM; MICROWAVE BREAST IMAGING; MICROWAVE IMAGING; MICROWAVE IMAGING SYSTEMS; PHANTOMS; STEPWISE PROCEDURE; TISSUE-MIMICKING MATERIALS;

IMAGING SYSTEMS; MICROWAVES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; RADAR; TUMORS;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 66849083433     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ANTEMURSI.2009.4805059     Document Type: Conference Paper

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