Detection of vesicoureteral reflux using microwave radiometrysystem characterization with tissue phantoms

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1629-1636

  Arunachalam, Kavitha ^a,b   MacCarini, Paolo ^a   De Luca, Valeria ^c   Tognolatti, Piero ^d   Bardati, Fernando ^e   Snow, Brent ^f   Stauffer, Paul ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Microwaves; noninvasive thermometry; radiometry; tissue phantoms; vesicoureteral reflux (VUR)

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA MEASUREMENT; DIELECTRIC PROBE; LABORATORY TESTING; LAYERED TISSUE; MICROSTRIPES; NETWORK ANALYZER; NONINVASIVE THERMOMETRY; PASSIVE MONITORING; POWER MEASUREMENT; POWER REFLECTION; RETURN LOSS; SPECTRAL MEASUREMENT; TEMPERATURE DATA; TISSUE MIMICKING PHANTOM; TISSUE PHANTOM; TISSUE PHANTOMS; VESICOURETERAL REFLUX (VUR);

BODY FLUIDS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; SHIELDING; SPECTRAL DENSITY; SPIRAL ANTENNAS; THERMOMETERS; TISSUE;

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA);

ARTICLE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; HUMAN; MICROWAVE RADIATION; PHANTOM; RADIOMETRY; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; URINALYSIS; VESICOURETERAL REFLUX;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MICROWAVES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOMETRY; VESICO-URETERAL REFLUX;

EID: 79956365866     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2011.2107515     Document Type: Article

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