Modeling the interaction of terahertz pulse with healthy skin and basal cell car-cinoma using the unconditionally stable Fundamental ADI-FDTD method

Progress In Electromagnetics Research B

Volumn , Issue 37, 2012, Pages 365-386

  Heh, D Y ^a   Tan, E L ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; TERAHERTZ WAVES;

BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; BIOLOGICAL TISSUES; BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS; DISPERSIVE MEDIA; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PULSE RADIATION; TERAHERTZ TECHNOLOGY; UNCONDITIONALLY STABLE;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 84859122526     PISSN: 19376472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2528/PIERB11090905     Document Type: Article

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