Open-ended coaxial probe measurements for breast cancer detection

2010 IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium, RWW 2010 - Paper Digest

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 512-515

  Kuhn, Michael J ^a   Awida, Mohamed ^a   Mahfouz, Mohamed R ^a   Fathy, Aly E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer detection; Complex permittivity; Neural networks; Open ended coaxial probe

Indexed keywords

AGILENT; ANSOFT HFSS; B PHASE; BIOLOGICAL TISSUES; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CANCER DETECTION; BREAST TISSUES; CALIBRATION METHOD; CALIBRATION TECHNIQUES; COAXIAL PROBE; COMPLEX PERMITTIVITY; DIELECTRIC PROBE; FINAL DECISION; FREQUENCY RANGES; MEASURING SYSTEMS; MULTIPLE MEASUREMENTS; NETWORK ANALYZER; NON-HOMOGENEOUS; OPEN-ENDED COAXIAL PROBE; ROBUST MEASUREMENT; SIMULATION RESULT; TISSUE TEMPERATURES;

CALIBRATION; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; HISTOLOGY; PERMITTIVITY; PROBES; TISSUE;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 77952364468     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RWS.2010.5434256     Document Type: Conference Paper

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