Experimental active antenna measurement setup for UWB breast cancer detection

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 111-114

  Helbig, M ^a   Hein, M A ^a   Herrmann, R ^a   Kmec, M ^a   Sachs, J ^a   Schilling, K ^a   Di Clemente, F Scotto ^a   Hilger, I ^b   Dahlke, K ^b   Rauschenbach, P ^c  

^a ILMENAU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b JENA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^c MEODAT GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Active antennas; breast cancer detection; breast phantoms; M sequence radar; small antennas; UWB

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE ANTENNAS; BREAST CANCER DETECTION; BREAST PHANTOM; M SEQUENCE; SMALL ANTENNA; UWB;

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

ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

EID: 84870840292     PISSN: 21626588     EISSN: 21626596     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340449     Document Type: Conference Paper

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