Microwave imaging for breast cancer detection and therapy monitoring

2011 IEEE Radio and Wireless Week, RWW 2011 - 2011 IEEE Topical Conference on Biomedical Wireless Technologies, Networks, and Sensing Systems, BioWireleSS 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 59-62

  Golnabi, Amir H ^a   Meaney, Paul M ^a   Geimer, Shireen ^a   Paulsen, Keith D ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Microwave imaging; Therapy monitoring; Two dimensional and three dimensional reconstruction algorithms

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CANCER DETECTION; BREAST TISSUES; CURRENT IMAGING; ELECTRICAL PROPERTY; FUNCTIONAL INFORMATION; MICROWAVE IMAGING; MICROWAVE IMAGING SYSTEMS; PATIENT DATA; PHANTOM EXPERIMENT; RECONSTRUCTED IMAGE; THERAPY MONITORING; THREE-DIMENSIONAL RECONSTRUCTION; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ALGORITHMS; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; DISEASES; HISTOLOGY; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MICROWAVES; SENSORS; TWO DIMENSIONAL; WIRELESS NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 79953086264     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BIOWIRELESS.2011.5724347     Document Type: Conference Paper

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