Terahertz Pulsed Imaging of liver cirrhosis

34th International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves, IRMMW-THz 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Huang, Shengyang ^a   Wang, Yi xiang ^a   Yu, Jun ^a   Ahuja, Anil T ^a   Wallace, Vincent P ^b   Zhang, Yuan Ting ^a,c   Pickwell Macpherson, Emma ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c SHENZHEN INSTITUTES OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION COEFFICIENTS; CLINICAL IMAGING; COHERENT IMAGING; DIELECTRIC PARAMETERS; FORMALIN; HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TISSUE; MICROWAVE REGION; SOFT TISSUE; TERAHERTZ PULSED IMAGING; TERAHERTZ REGION;

ABSORPTION; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; FORMALDEHYDE; LIGHT REFRACTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; REFRACTOMETERS;

LIVER;

EID: 72749087072     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIMW.2009.5324758     Document Type: Conference Paper

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