Microwave system to detect traumatic brain injuries using compact unidirectional antenna and wideband transceiver with verification on realistic head phantom

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 62, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1826-1836

  Mobashsher, Ahmed Toaha ^a   Abbosh, Amin M ^a   Wang, Yifan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Directional antenna; head imaging; head phantom; microwave imaging

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; MOBILE ANTENNAS; RADAR ANTENNAS; SLOT ANTENNAS; TRANSCEIVERS;

BACKPROJECTION ALGORITHMS; DIRECTIONAL ANTENNA; HEAD IMAGING; HEAD PHANTOM; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHM; MICROWAVE IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL (3D) STRUCTURES; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURIES;

DIRECTIVE ANTENNAS;

EID: 84906946356     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2014.2342669     Document Type: Article

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