Experimental feasibility of breast tumor detection and localization

Author

Fear, E.C. ; Sill, J. ; Stuchly, M.A.

Author_Institution

Electr. & Comput. Eng., Calgary Univ., Alta., Canada

Volume

1

fYear

2003

Firstpage

383

Abstract

Microwave breast imaging with radar-based techniques has been proposed for breast tumor detection. The feasibility study reported in this paper is designed to evaluate detection and localization of objects in three dimensions (3D). Experimental setups consisting of a PVC pipe (skin) and wood spheres (tumors) are illuminated with a resistively loaded monopole antenna. Improved image reconstruction algorithms are applied to the measured data, and the resulting images demonstrate detection and localization of smaller 3D tumor models.

Keywords

adaptive radar; biomedical imaging; image reconstruction; microwave imaging; monopole antennas; radar antennas; radar imaging; skin; tumours; 1.68 to 10.6 GHz; 3D breast tumor detection/localization; 3D tumor models; 5.24 GHz; PVC pipe/wood spheres experimental setup; TSAR; image reconstruction algorithms; radar-based microwave breast imaging; resistively loaded monopole antennas; skin/tumor illumination; tissue sensing adaptive radar; Antenna measurements; Breast neoplasms; Breast tumors; Image reconstruction; Loaded antennas; Microwave imaging; Microwave theory and techniques; Object detection; Radar detection; Skin neoplasms;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Symposium Digest, 2003 IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

Philadelphia, PA, USA

ISSN

0149-645X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7695-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSYM.2003.1210957

Filename

1210957