Title :
Microwave Thermography as a Diagnostic Tool for the Detection of Cancer (Abstract)
Author :
Barrett, A.H. ; Myers, P.C.
Abstract :
Microwave thermography is the noninvasive detection of subcutaneous temperatures. Measurements at 1.3 and 3.3 GHz on several thousand patients in a breast cancer detection clinic show a true-positive detection rate of seventy percent and when combined with infrared thermography a rate of ninety percent is obtained.
Keywords :
Breast cancer; Cancer detection; Infrared detectors; Laboratories; Physics; Temperature measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Microwave Symposium Digest, 1977 IEEE MTT-S International
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA, USA
DOI :
10.1109/MWSYM.1977.1124422
