Experimental Validation of the Effect of Compression on Simplified Phantoms in Microwave Tomography Applied to Breast Cancer Detection

Author

Diaz-Bolado, A. ; Laurin, Jean-Jacques

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Ecole Polytech. de Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada

Volume

11

fYear

2012

fDate

7/4/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1602

Lastpage

1605

Abstract

In this letter, the effect of breast compression in microwave tomography (MT) for breast cancer detection is analyzed experimentally on a simplified phantom. For this purpose, the same inhomogeneous scatterer has been reconstructed using two phantoms representing two different levels of compression in a camera configuration. The developed phantom, based on some mechanical properties of breast tissues is presented, as well as the measurement procedure. The imaging capabilities of the camera configuration are briefly analyzed in order to quantify the effect of number of transmitters and receivers on the quality of the reconstructed images. Finally, the quality of the measurements and the reconstructed images from the two phantoms are compared in terms of the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and the mean square error (MSE), respectively.

Keywords

biological tissues; image reconstruction; mean square error methods; medical image processing; microwave imaging; phantoms; tomography; breast cancer detection; breast compression; breast tissues; camera configuration; image reconstruction; inhomogeneous scatterer; mean square error; microwave tomography; signal-to-noise ratio; simplified phantoms; Antenna measurements; Image reconstruction; Microwave imaging; Microwave measurements; Microwave theory and techniques; Phantoms; Signal to noise ratio; Breast cancer detection; inverse scattering; microwave tomography (MT); near-field measurements;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1536-1225

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LAWP.2013.2238599

Filename

6407706