An ultra-wideband microwave tomography system: Preliminary results

Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Engineering the Future of Biomedicine, EMBC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2288-2291

  Gilmore, Colin ^a   Mojabi, Puyan ^a   Zakaria, Amer ^a   Ostadrahimi, Majid ^a   Kaye, Cam ^a   Noghanian, Sima ^a,b   Shafai, Lotfollah ^a   Pistorius, Stephen ^a   LoVetri, Joe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b University of North Dakota   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND NETWORKS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYZERS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; TOMOGRAPHY;

BIOMEDICAL IMAGING; CONTRAST SOURCE INVERSION; DIELECTRIC OBJECTS; DISTORTED BORN ITERATIVE METHODS; MICROWAVE IMAGING SYSTEMS; NON LINEAR RECONSTRUCTION; ULTRAWIDEBAND MICROWAVES; VECTOR NETWORK ANALYZERS;

ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

EID: 77950976107     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5335060     Document Type: Conference Paper

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