Time-domain wideband adaptive beamforming for radar breast imaging

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1725-1735

  Byrne, Dallan ^a   Craddock, Ian J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Beamforming; Biomedical Radar Imaging; Microwave Imaging; ultra wideband

Indexed keywords

BEAMFORMING; CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; MEDICAL IMAGING; NUMERICAL METHODS; RADAR; RADAR SIGNAL PROCESSING; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TISSUE; ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

CLUTTER REDUCTION; DIELECTRIC CONTRASTS; EQUALIZATION FILTERS; IMAGING ALGORITHM; MICROWAVE IMAGING; TISSUE COMPOSITION; WIDEBAND ADAPTIVE BEAMFORMING; WIDEBAND MICROWAVES;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 84927609236     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2015.2398125     Document Type: Article

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