Heterogeneous anthropomorphic phantoms with realistic dielectric properties for microwave breast imaging experiments

Microwave and Optical Technology Letters

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1896-1902

  Mashal, Alireza ^a   Gao, Fuqiang ^a   Hagness, Susan C ^a  

^a Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast phantoms; Dielectric spectroscopy; Microwave imaging

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMORPHIC PHANTOMS; BREAST PHANTOM; BREAST TISSUES; MICROWAVE BREAST IMAGING; MICROWAVE IMAGING; OIL-IN-GELATIN DISPERSIONS; VOLUMETRIC BREAST DENSITIES;

DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; EXPERIMENTS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MICROWAVES; TISSUE;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 79960689451     PISSN: 08952477     EISSN: 10982760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mop.26128     Document Type: Article

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