An effective procedure for MNP-enhanced breast cancer microwave imaging

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1071-1079

  Scapaticci, Rosa ^a   Bellizzi, Gennaro ^b   Catapano, Ilaria ^a   Crocco, Lorenzo ^a   Bucci, Ovidio Mario ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC SENSING OF THE ENVIRONMENT   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Breast cancer imaging; contrast agents; magnetic nanoparticles; microwave imaging

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; IMAGING SYSTEMS; NANOPARTICLES;

BREAST CANCER IMAGING; COMPUTATIONAL BURDEN; CONTRAST AGENT; FORMATION PROCEDURE; LINEAR INVERSE SCATTERING PROBLEM; MAGNETIC NANO-PARTICLES; MICROWAVE IMAGING; REALISTIC CONDITIONS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

CONTRAST MEDIUM; MAGNETIC NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGING SYSTEM; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETISM; MICROWAVE RADIATION; NOISE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TUMOR VOLUME;

BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETITE NANOPARTICLES; MICROWAVES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING;

EID: 84897388771     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2013.2293839     Document Type: Article

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