Contrast-enhanced microwave imaging of breast tumors: A computational study using 3D realistic numerical phantoms

Inverse Problems

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Shea, J D ^a,b   Kosmas, P ^a   Van Veen, B D ^a   Hagness, S C ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAY MEASUREMENTS; COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES; DIELECTRIC CONTRASTS; DIFFERENTIAL IMAGE; FIBROGLANDULAR TISSUE; INVERSE SCATTERING; MICROWAVE INVERSE SCATTERINGS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; HISTOLOGY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TUMORS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 84878280165     PISSN: 02665611     EISSN: 13616420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0266-5611/26/7/074009     Document Type: Article

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