Quantitative microwave imaging for breast cancer detection using a planar 2.45 GHz system

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 59, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2691-2699

  Henriksson, Tommy ^a,b   Joachimowicz, Nadine ^a   Conessa, Christophe ^a   Bolomey, Jean Charles ^a  

^a UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

^b MÄLARDALEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Breast imaging; microwave imaging; nonlinear inverse scattering

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS; BREAST CANCER DETECTION; BREAST IMAGING; BREAST TUMOR DETECTION; CALIBRATION TECHNIQUES; DATA AVERAGING; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; EXPERIMENTAL SETUP; EXPERIMENTAL WORKS; HIGH CONTRAST; INHOMOGENEOUS OBJECTS; MICROWAVE IMAGING; MODEL ERRORS; NONLINEAR INVERSE SCATTERING; NUMERICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PLANAR GEOMETRIES; PLANAR MICROWAVES; QUANTITATIVE IMAGES; QUANTITATIVE IMAGING; TRITON X-100;

CAMERAS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; SCATTERING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

MICROWAVES;

EID: 77956755677     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2010.2045540     Document Type: Article

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