Computational validation of a 3-D microwave imaging system for breast-cancer screening

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 57, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2105-2115

  Rubæk, Tonny ^a   Kim, Oleksiy S ^a   Meincke, Peter ^a,b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b TICRA   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Biomedical imaging; Cancer; Electromagnetic scattering inverse problems; Microwave imaging; Nonlinear equations

Indexed keywords

3-D MICROWAVE IMAGING; BIOMEDICAL IMAGING; CANCER; CANCER SCREENING; COMPUTATIONAL VALIDATION; EFFICIENT METHOD; ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING INVERSE PROBLEMS; FORWARD SCATTERING; IMAGING ALGORITHM; MEASURED SIGNALS; MEASUREMENT SETUP; MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; MICROWAVE IMAGING; MICROWAVE IMAGING SYSTEMS; MULTI-STATIC; SIMULATED DATA; SYSTEM USE; TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK;

ALGEBRA; ANTENNAS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; MICROWAVES; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

METHOD OF MOMENTS;

EID: 67949100558     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2009.2021879     Document Type: Article

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