Rotating antenna microwave imaging system for breast cancer detection

Progress in Electromagnetics Research

Volumn 107, Issue , 2010, Pages 203-217

  O'Halloran, M ^a   Glavin, M ^a   Jones, E ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; BEAMFORMING; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; DISEASES; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TISSUE; TUMORS; ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

BEAMFORMING ALGORITHMS; BREAST CANCER DETECTION; CONFOCAL MICROWAVE IMAGING; DELAY-AND-SUM BEAMFORMER; DIELECTRIC CONTRASTS; DIELECTRIC SCATTERERS; FIBROGLANDULAR TISSUE; MICROWAVE IMAGING SYSTEMS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 78650199944     PISSN: 10704698     EISSN: 15598985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2528/PIER10071002     Document Type: Article

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