Time-domain microwave breast cancer detection: Experiments with comprehensive glandular phantoms

This paper presents measurements performed on glandular phantoms using a time-domain microwave breast cancer detection system. The breast phantoms used in testing the system have skin-, fat-, glandular- and tumor-mimicking tissues with dielectric properties similar to those of actual tissues. This work provides the steps to composing a phantom with appropriate glandular structures, and to building breast phantoms with different percentages of glandular tissue. Finally, we present measurements from the tumor detection system with the breast phantoms in place.