A 16-element wideband microwave applicator for breast cancer detection using thermoacoustic imaging

Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium

Volumn 2015-January, Issue , 2015, Pages 243-247

  Nan, Hao ^a   Liu, Shiyu ^b   Dolatsha, Nemat ^a   Arbabian, Amin ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATORS; BANDWIDTH; DISEASES; MEDICAL IMAGING; MICROWAVES; RADAR IMAGING; THERMOACOUSTICS; TISSUE; TISSUE ENGINEERING; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

BREAST CANCER DETECTION; BREAST CANCER SCREENING; CONFORMAL PHASED ARRAYS; FULL-WAVE ELECTROMAGNETIC SIMULATION; MICROWAVE APPLICATORS; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE; THERMOACOUSTIC IMAGING; ULTRASOUND DETECTION;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84947269129     PISSN: 15599450     EISSN: 19317360     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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