Microwave radar and microwave-induced thermoacoustics: Dual-modality approach for breast cancer detection

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 354-360

  Kirshin, Evgeny ^a   Oreshkin, Borislav ^a   Zhu, Guangran Kevin ^a   Popovic, Milica ^a   Coates, Mark ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Breast; breast cancer detection; hypothesis testing; imaging; microwave; sensor fusion; ultrawide band (UWB)

Indexed keywords

BREAST; BREAST CANCER DETECTION; DETECTION PERFORMANCE; DUAL-MODALITY; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN (FDTD) METHODS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MEASUREMENT NOISE; MICROWAVE RADARS; SENSOR FUSION; SIMULATED SIGNALS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASES; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MEDICAL IMAGING; MICROWAVES; RADAR; SIGNAL DETECTION; STATISTICAL TESTS; THERMOACOUSTICS;

MICROWAVE SENSORS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; DIELECTRIC CONSTANT; MICROWAVE INDUCED THERMOACOUSTICS; MICROWAVE RADAR; MICROWAVE RADIATION; PROBABILITY; SIMULATION; THERMOACOUSTICS; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MICROWAVES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84872557947     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2012.2220768     Document Type: Article

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