Breast phantoms for microwave imaging

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 13, Issue , 2014, Pages 1333-1336

  Joachimowicz, Nadine ^a   Conessa, Christophe ^a   Henriksson, Tommy ^b   Duchêne, Bernard ^a  

^a UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Microwave imaging; ultrawideband (UWB) breast phantom

Indexed keywords

IMAGING SYSTEMS; MIXTURES; ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

BREAST PHANTOM; BREAST TISSUES; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; GHZ FREQUENCIES; MICROWAVE BREAST IMAGING; MICROWAVE IMAGING; RELATIVE DIELECTRIC PERMITTIVITY; REPRODUCIBILITIES;

DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES;

EID: 84905053579     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2014.2336373     Document Type: Article

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