Guest editorial: Special cluster on microwave medical imaging

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 11, Issue , 2012, Pages 1592-1597

  Hagness, Susan C ^a   Fear, Elise C ^b   Massa, Andrea ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL TISSUES; CLOSE PROXIMITY; ELECTROMAGNETICS; HARDWARE DEVELOPMENT; INVERSION PROBLEMS; MICROWAVE POWER; RESEARCH EFFORTS;

ANTENNAS; TISSUE;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 84873347771     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2013.2240569     Document Type: Review

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