Experimental phantom trials for UWB breast cancer detection

2012 the 7th German Microwave Conference, GeMiC 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Helbig, Marko ^a   Hilger, Ingrid ^b   Kmec, Martin ^a   Rimkus, Gabriella ^b   Sachs, Jürgen ^a  

^a ILMENAU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b JENA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

breast cancer detection; breast phantoms; electrically short antennas; M sequence radar technology; UWB

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER DETECTION; BREAST PHANTOM; ELECTRICALLY SHORT ANTENNAS; RADAR TECHNOLOGY; UWB;

ANTENNAS; DISEASES; MEDICAL IMAGING; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS;

ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

EID: 84860768802     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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