Microwave dielectric contrast imaging in a magnetic resonant environment and the effect of using magnetic resonant spatial information in image reconstruction

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 5738-5741

  Epstein, Neil R ^a   Golnabi, Amir H ^a   Meaney, Paul M ^a   Paulsen, Keith D ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY INFORMATION; BOUNDARY REGIONS; DIELECTRIC CONTRASTS; ELECTRICAL PROPERTY; INTERNAL STRUCTURE; MALIGNANT TISSUES; MICROWAVE DIELECTRICS; MICROWAVE IMAGES; MICROWAVE TOMOGRAPHY; PHANTOM EXPERIMENT; PROPERTY VALUE; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS; SPATIAL LOCATION; VOLUME OF INTEREST;

DATA REDUCTION; EXPERIMENTS; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INFORMATION USE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RECOVERY; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY;

ELECTRIC PROPERTIES;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EQUIPMENT; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; METHODOLOGY; MICROWAVE RADIATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; INSTRUMENTATION;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICROWAVES; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 84862271008     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6091420     Document Type: Conference Paper

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