Three-dimensional microwave breast imaging: Dispersive dielectric properties estimation using patient-specific basis functions

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 969-981

  Winters, David W ^a   Shea, Jacob D ^a   Kosmas, Panagiotis ^b   Van Veen, Barry D ^a   Hagness, Susan C ^a  

^a Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Computation time; Electromagnetic tomography; Finite difference time domain (FDTD) methods; Inverse problems; Microwave imaging

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; COMPUTATION TIME; ELECTROMAGNETIC TOMOGRAPHY; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN (FDTD) METHODS; MICROWAVE IMAGING;

CERAMIC CAPACITORS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; IMAGING SYSTEMS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; MICROWAVES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY;

INVERSE PROBLEMS;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREAST; BREAST TUMOR; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; MICROWAVE RADIATION; PATHOLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROWAVES; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 67649496930     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2008.2008959     Document Type: Article

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