A Correlated Microwave-Acoustic Imaging method for early-stage cancer detection

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 480-483

  Gao, Fei ^a   Zheng, Yuanjin ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNALS; CANCER DETECTION; COMPLETE SYSTEM; CONFOCAL MICROWAVE IMAGING; DIELECTRIC CONTRASTS; HEALTHY TISSUES; HIGH CONTRAST; HIGH RESOLUTION; IMAGE CORRELATIONS; IMAGING METHOD; IMAGING MODALITY; LOW CONTRAST; MICROWAVE ENERGIES; MICROWAVE SIGNALS; SIMPLE ALGORITHM; UWB TRANSMITTER;

ACOUSTIC IMAGING; DISEASES; MEDICAL IMAGING; THERMAL EXPANSION; TISSUE;

MICROWAVES;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MICROWAVE RADIATION; NEOPLASM;

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROWAVES; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84883569398     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EMBC.2012.6345972     Document Type: Conference Paper

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