Prefiltered beamforming for early-stage breast cancer detection

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 12, Issue , 2013, Pages 500-503

  Shahzad, A ^a   O'Halloran, M ^a   Jones, E ^a   Glavin, M ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Delay and sum beamformer; Filtered beamforming; Finite difference time domain (FDTD); Ultrawideband (UWB) radar imaging

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; RADAR IMAGING; TUMORS; ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

APPROPRIATE METRICS; CONFOCAL MICROWAVE IMAGING; DELAY-AND-SUM BEAMFORMER; EARLY-STAGE BREAST CANCER; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAINS; PRE-FILTERING APPROACH; SIGNIFICANT DETERIORATIONS; ULTRA WIDEBAND RADARS;

BEAMFORMING;

EID: 84891777660     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2013.2255858     Document Type: Article

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