An improved technique to predict the time-of-arrival of a tumor response in radar-based breast imaging

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1200-1208

  Kurrant, Douglas J ^a   Fear, Elise C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Classification; Microwave imaging; Time of arrival (TOA) estimation

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; BREAST IMAGING; CLASSIFICATION; EARLY-STAGE BREAST CANCER; MICROWAVE IMAGING; REALISTIC SCENARIO; SAMPLE DATA; TIME-OF-ARRIVAL; TIME-OF-ARRIVAL (TOA) ESTIMATION; TUMOR RESPONSE;

IMAGING SYSTEMS; MICROWAVES; RADAR; TUMORS;

RADAR IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER MODEL; MAMMOGRAPHY; MICROWAVE RADIATION;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; HUMANS; MICROWAVES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 67149089199     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2008.2011914     Document Type: Article

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