Advances in the 3-D forward-backward time-stepping (FBTS) inverse scattering technique for breast cancer detection

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 56, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2232-2243

  Johnson, Jessi E ^a   Takenaka, Takashi ^b   Ping, Kismet Anak Hong ^b   Honda, Shunsuke ^b   Tanaka, Toshiyuki ^b  

^a Miramar Labs Inc   (United States)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cancer; Electromagnetic scattering inverse problems; Medical diagnosis; Microwave imaging

Indexed keywords

BACKWARD TIME; BREAST CANCER DETECTION; BREAST IMAGING; CANCER; CANCER DETECTION; ELECTRICAL PARAMETER; ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING INVERSE PROBLEMS; FIBROGLANDULAR; INVERSE SCATTERING; MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS; MICROWAVE IMAGING; MICROWAVE PROPERTY; MODEL-BASED; PLANAR ARRAYS; RECONSTRUCTED IMAGE; RECONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES; REDUCED SIZE;

DIAGNOSIS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MEDICAL PROBLEMS; MICROWAVES; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER MODEL; ELECTRICAL PARAMETERS; ILLUMINATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TUMOR VOLUME;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 69549118800     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2009.2022635     Document Type: Article

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