Measurement of the complex permittivity of microbubbles using a cavity perturbation technique for contrast enhanced ultra-wideband breast cancer detection

2010 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC'10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 6733-6736

  Ogunlade, Olumide ^a   Chen, Yifan ^a   Kosmas, Panagiotis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER DETECTION; CAVITY PERTURBATION TECHNIQUE; COMPLEX PERMITTIVITY; CONTRAST-ENHANCED; DIELECTRIC CONTRASTS; DIFFERENT FREQUENCY; FREQUENCY SPECTRA; MICROBUBBLES; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE;

ETHYLENE; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SPECTROSCOPY; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

PERMITTIVITY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MICROBUBBLE;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROBUBBLES;

EID: 78650810652     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2010.5626016     Document Type: Conference Paper

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