A bimodal reconstruction method for breast cancer imaging

Progress in Electromagnetics Research

Volumn 118, Issue , 2011, Pages 461-486

  Flores Tapia, D ^a,b   O'Halloran, M ^c   Pistorius, S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b CANCERCARE MANITOBA   (Canada)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

BREAST CANCER IMAGING; BREAST IMAGING; BREAST PHANTOM; BREAST STRUCTURE; ELECTRICAL IMPE DANCE TOMOGRAPHY (EIT); MALIGNANT LESION; MICROWAVE RADARS; RECONSTRUCTION METHOD;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 79960684347     PISSN: 10704698     EISSN: 15598985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2528/PIER11050408     Document Type: Article

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