Novel preprocessing techniques for accurate microwave imaging of human brain

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 12, Issue , 2013, Pages 460-463

  Mustafa, S ^a   Mohammed, B ^b   Abbosh, A ^b  

^a SALAHADDIN UNIVERSITY   (Iraq)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Brain stroke detection; delay and sum beamforming; head phantom; microwave imaging

Indexed keywords

BRAIN STROKES; DELAY AND SUMS; DETECTION AND LOCALIZATION; HEAD PHANTOM; MICROWAVE IMAGING; MICROWAVE IMAGING SYSTEMS; PREPROCESSING TECHNIQUES; TAPERED SLOT ANTENNAS;

BEAMFORMING; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; SLOT ANTENNAS;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84876258295     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2013.2255095     Document Type: Article

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