Head phantom for testing microwave systems for head imaging

2012 Cairo International Biomedical Engineering Conference, CIBEC 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 191-193

  Mohammed, Beada'A ^a   Abbosh, Amin ^a   Henin, Bassem ^a   Sharpe, Philip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Head phantom; microwave imaging

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC PROBE; HEAD IMAGING; HEAD PHANTOM; HUMAN-HEAD PHANTOM; MEASURED PROPERTIES; MICROWAVE IMAGING; MICROWAVE SYSTEMS; RESEARCH ACTIVITIES;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BRAIN; FABRICATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; TISSUE;

ELECTRIC PROPERTIES;

EID: 84875586818     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CIBEC.2012.6473320     Document Type: Conference Paper

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