Fast 3-D tomographic microwave imaging for breast cancer detection

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1584-1592

  Grzegorczyk, Tomasz M ^a   Meaney, Paul M ^b   Kaufman, Peter A ^c   Diflorio Alexander, Roberta M ^c   Paulsen, Keith D ^b  

^a Delpsi   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^c DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

3 D microwave imaging; Breast cancer; breast cancer diagnostic; discrete dipole approximation; Gauss Newton algorithm; therapy monitoring; tomographic imaging

Indexed keywords

3-D MICROWAVE IMAGING; BREAST CANCER; DISCRETE DIPOLE APPROXIMATION; GAUSS-NEWTON ALGORITHM; THERAPY MONITORING; TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGING;

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; DISEASES; HARDWARE; IMAGE RESOLUTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREAST; BREAST TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROWAVE RADIATION; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICROWAVES; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84864575735     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2012.2197218     Document Type: Article

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