A comparative study of coherent time reversal minimum variance beamformers for breast cancer detection

摘要

In this study we consider coherent processing for time reversal microwave imaging for breast cancer detection. We derive coherent time reversal standard Capon beamformer (C-TR-SCB) and coherent time reversal robust Capon beamformer (C-TR-RCB) and compare their imaging performances for breast cancer detection in anatomically realistic heterogeneous 3-D breast phantoms.