Development of non-uniform breast phantom and its microwave imaging for tumor detection by CP-MCT

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 2723-2726

  Miyakawa, Michio ^a   Takata, Sadaki ^b   Inotsume, Kenta ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SHISEIDO RESEARCH CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIRP MODULATION; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LIQUID SUGAR; MECHANICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; MICROWAVES; TUMORS;

BREAST PHANTOM; HIGHER FREQUENCIES; LIQUID PARAFFINS; MICROWAVE COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIES; MICROWAVE IMAGING; NON-HOMOGENEOUS; TISSUE-MIMICKING MATERIALS; TUMOR DETECTION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 77950984223     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5333383     Document Type: Conference Paper

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