Improved tissue phantoms for experimental validation of microwave breast cancer detection

EuCAP 2010 - The 4th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Porter, Emily ^a   Fakhoury, Jules ^a   Oprisor, Razvan ^a   Coates, Mark ^a   Popovic, Milica ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Breast cancer detection; Microwave imaging; Tissue phantoms

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; BREAST CANCER DETECTION; BREAST PHANTOM; DIELECTRIC PERMITTIVITIES; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; MICROWAVE DETECTION; MICROWAVE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRUCTURES; TISSUE PHANTOM; TISSUE TYPES;

ANTENNAS; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; IMAGING SYSTEMS; TISSUE;

MICROWAVES;

EID: 77955314676     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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