Beamspace time-reversal microwave imaging for breast cancer detection

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 12, Issue , 2013, Pages 241-244

  Hossain, Md Delwar ^a   Mohan, Ananda Sanagavarapu ^a   Abedin, Mohammed Jainul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Beamspace processing; breast cancer detection; microwave imaging; time reversal (TR) techniques

Indexed keywords

BEAM-SPACE PROCESSING; BEAMSPACE TRANSFORMATIONS; BREAST CANCER DETECTION; BREAST PHANTOM; GLANDULAR TISSUE; MICROWAVE IMAGING; RECEIVED SIGNALS; TIME REVERSAL;

DISEASES; IMAGING SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL METHODS; TISSUE;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 84875302178     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2013.2247018     Document Type: Article

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