System development of microwave induced thermo-acoustic tomography and experiments on breast tumor

Progress in Electromagnetics Research

Volumn 134, Issue , 2013, Pages 323-336

  Zhao, Zhiqin ^a   Song, Jian ^a   Zhu, Xiaozhang ^a   Wang, Jinguo ^a   Wu, Jiangniu ^a   Liu, Yulang ^a   Nie, Zaiping ^a   Liu, Qinghuo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER DETECTION; BREAST TUMOR; CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL PRACTICES; EARLY BREAST CANCER; HIGH CONTRAST; HUMAN BREAST CANCER; IMAGING EXPERIMENTS; IMAGING PROCESSING; QUANTITATIVE FEATURES; RESEARCH TOPICS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; TIME REVERSAL MIRRORS; ULTRASOUND IMAGING SYSTEMS;

ACOUSTIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; DIAGNOSIS; DISEASES; IMAGING SYSTEMS; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 84871148891     PISSN: 10704698     EISSN: 15598985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2528/PIER12101604     Document Type: Article

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