Experimental assessment of microwave diagnostic tool for ultra-wideband breast cancer detection

Progress In Electromagnetics Research M

Volumn 23, Issue , 2012, Pages 109-121

  Bakar, A A ^a,b   Ireland, D ^a   Abbosh, A ^a   Wang, Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BISTATIC; BREAST CANCER DETECTION; BREAST PHANTOM; BREAST TISSUES; EXPERIMENTAL ASSESSMENT; FREQUENCY RANGES; HIGH RESOLUTION; LOW DIELECTRIC; MICROWAVE DIAGNOSTICS; MODE OF OPERATIONS; MONOSTATIC; POSTPROCESSING ALGORITHMS; SCANNING SYSTEMS; TAPERED SLOT ANTENNAS; ULTRAWIDEBAND MICROWAVES; WIDE-BAND;

ANTENNA ARRAYS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; SLOT ANTENNAS; TISSUE;

ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

EID: 84863060091     PISSN: 19378726     EISSN: 10988963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2528/PIERM11122102     Document Type: Article

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