FDTD investigations into UWB radar technique of breast tumor detection and location

Proceedings of the 1st IEEE International Conference on Wireless Broadband and Ultra Wideband Communications, AusWireless 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 147-151

  Wang, Hua ^a   Bialkowski, Marek E ^a   Liu, Feng ^a   Crozier, Stuart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; MEDICAL IMAGING; PLASTIC CONTAINERS; RADAR IMAGING; RADAR SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TUMORS;

BREAST TUMOR DETECTION; DIFFERENT LAYERS; FDTD SIMULATIONS; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN (FDTD) METHODS; INCIDENT WAVES; OPTIMAL MICROWAVE; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; REFLECTING TARGETS;

ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

EID: 84893352302     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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