Experimental and numerical investigations of a High-resolution 3D microwave imaging system for breast cancer detection

Author

Liu, Qing H. ; Yu, Chun ; Stang, John ; Yuan, Mengqing ; Bresslour, Elan ; George, Rhett T. ; Ybarra, Gary ; Joines, William T.

Author_Institution

Duke Univ., Durham

fYear

2007

fDate

9-15 June 2007

Firstpage

2192

Lastpage

2192

Abstract

In this paper, we have developed a prototype 3D microwave imaging system for breast cancer diagnosis and screening. This presentation will give an overview of the hardware development, forward electromagnetic wave propagation models, nonlinear inverse scattering algorithms for this 3D microwave imaging system. This high sensitivity enables the 3D system to collect accurate scattering data from small phantom tumors.

Keywords

biological organs; biomedical imaging; cancer; electromagnetic wave scattering; gynaecology; image resolution; microwave imaging; microwave propagation; phantoms; tumours; breast cancer diagnosis; breast cancer screening; forward electromagnetic wave propagation models; high-resolution 3D microwave imaging system; nonlinear inverse scattering algorithms; phantom tumors; Breast cancer; Cancer detection; Electromagnetic modeling; Electromagnetic propagation; Electromagnetic scattering; Hardware; High-resolution imaging; Inverse problems; Microwave imaging; Prototypes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2007 IEEE

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0877-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-0878-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2007.4395963

Filename

4395963