Microwave tomography for breast cancer detection: Study of dispersion and heterogeneity effects

Antem/URSI 2006 - 12th International Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics and Canadian Radio Sciences Conference, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Sabouni, Abas ^a,b   Noghanian, Sima ^a   Pistorius, Stephen ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b CANCERCARE MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cancer detection; genetic algorithm; inverse scattering; microwave imaging

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; DISEASES; DISPERSIONS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATERIALS TESTING; MEDICAL IMAGING; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; OPTIMIZATION; TOMOGRAPHY;

BREAST CANCER DETECTION; CANCER DETECTION; GENETIC-ALGORITHM OPTIMIZATIONS; HETEROGENEOUS CHARACTERISTIC; INVERSE SCATTERING; MICROWAVE IMAGING; NON-DESTRUCTIVE IMAGING; NONDESTRUCTIVE TESTING OF MATERIALS;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 85016120866     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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