Microwave-induced thermoacoustic imaging model for potential breast cancer detection

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 59, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2782-2791

  Wang, Xiong ^a   Bauer, Daniel R ^b   Witte, Russell ^b   Xin, Hao ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer detection; microwave spectroscopy; safety evaluation; thermoacoustic imaging (TAI)

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PRESSURES; ACOUSTIC SIGNALS; BREAST CANCER DETECTION; BREAST CANCER IMAGING; BREAST TISSUES; BROADBAND FREQUENCY; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN SIMULATIONS; FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE; MATCHING MECHANISMS; MODELING RESULTS; PEAK POWER; SAFETY EVALUATIONS; SINGLE FREQUENCY; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE; THERMOACOUSTIC; THERMOACOUSTIC IMAGING;

ANTENNA FEEDERS; DISEASES; MICROWAVE ACOUSTICS; MICROWAVE SPECTROSCOPY; MICROWAVES; THERMOACOUSTICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; TISSUE;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; MICROWAVE INDUCED THERMOACOUSTIC IMAGING; SIMULATION; SPECTROSCOPY; THERMOACOUSTICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MICROWAVES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOTOACOUSTIC TECHNIQUES; PRESSURE;

EID: 84866526791     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2012.2210218     Document Type: Article

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