A heterogeneous breast phantom for microwave breast imaging

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 2727-2730

  Ostadrahimi, Majid ^a   Reopelle, Ryan ^b   Noghanian, Sima ^b   Pistorius, Stephen ^a   Vahedi, Arman ^a   Safari, Faezeh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; HISTOLOGY; MICROWAVES; TISSUE;

BIOLOGICAL TISSUES; BREAST PHANTOM; BREAST TISSUES; MICROWAVE BREAST IMAGING; MICROWAVE ENERGIES; MICROWAVE IMAGING; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D); TWO DIMENSIONAL (2 D);

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 77951006946     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5333347     Document Type: Conference Paper

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