Design and realisation of a microwave three-dimensional imaging system with application to breast-cancer detection

IET Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2200-2211

  Zhurbenko, V ^a   Rubaek T ^b   Krozer, V ^c   Meincke, P ^d  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d TICRA   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUISITION TIME; ACTIVE MICROWAVE; ARRAY ARCHITECTURE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DETECTION; COMPLEX PERMITTIVITY; DEDICATED HARDWARE; ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING PROBLEM; ELECTRONIC SCANNING; HIGH SENSITIVITY; IMAGE ACQUISITION TIME; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; NON-INVASIVE DETECTION; ONE FREQUENCY; OPERATING FREQUENCY; PATIENT COMFORT; RECEIVER NOISE; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; REPRODUCIBILITIES; SCATTERED FIELD; SINGLE-FREQUENCY; STANDARD DEVIATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL (3-D) IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; PERMITTIVITY;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 78649970189     PISSN: 17518725     EISSN: 17518733     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-map.2010.0106     Document Type: Article

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