Development and testing of a 60-element UWB conformal array for breast cancer imaging

Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EUCAP 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 3077-3079

  Klemm, M ^a   Gibbins, D ^a   Leendertz, J ^a   Horseman, T ^a   Preece, A W ^a   Benjamin, R ^a   Craddock, I J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER DETECTION; BREAST CANCER IMAGING; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFORMAL ARRAYS; FREQUENCY RANGES;

ANTENNA ARRAYS; DISEASES; MEDICAL IMAGING;

ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

EID: 79959634094     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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