Impact of microwave pulses on thermoacoustic imaging applications

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 11, Issue , 2012, Pages 1634-1637

  Wang, Xiong ^a   Bauer, Daniel R ^b   Vollin, Jeff L ^c   Manzi, David G ^c   Witte, Russell S ^d   Xin, Hao ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c RAYTHEON COMPANY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer detection; image resolution; pulse waveform; pulse width; thermoacoustic imaging (TAI)

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PRESSURES; ACOUSTIC SIGNALS; BREAST CANCER DETECTION; DIFFERENT SIZES; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; IMAGE SPATIAL RESOLUTION; KEY PARAMETERS; MICROWAVE PULSE; PEAK VALUES; PEAK-TO-PEAK; PULSE WAVEFORMS; PULSEWIDTHS; SQUARE PULSE; THERMOACOUSTIC IMAGING; TIME DOMAIN; TIME INTERVAL; WAVE FORMS;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; DISEASES; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; THERMOACOUSTICS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 84873340559     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2013.2237743     Document Type: Article

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