A New Breast Phantom With a Durable Skin Layer for Microwave Breast Imaging

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1693-1700

  Garrett, John ^a   Fear, Elise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biomedical engineering; Biomedical imaging; Dielectric materials; Dielectric measurement

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; CARBON; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; STRESSES;

ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES; BIOMEDICAL IMAGING; CARBON CONCENTRATIONS; DIELECTRIC MEASUREMENTS; GLANDULAR STRUCTURES; IMAGING ALGORITHM; MICROWAVE BREAST IMAGING; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D);

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 84927738196     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2015.2393854     Document Type: Article

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