Electromagnetic imaging for breast cancer research

Author

El-Shenawee, Magda

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, USA

fYear

2011

fDate

16-19 Jan. 2011

Firstpage

55

Lastpage

58

Abstract

Breast cancer is a serious potential health problem for all women. The current screening and imaging techniques such as X-ray mammography, clinical examination, ultrasound, and MRI, even combined in some way, provide only 73% accuracy in detecting breast cancer. This motivates researchers with biomedical background to investigate new techniques to advance the screening techniques aiming for early detection of breast cancer. In particular, the electromagnetic (EM) community has been researching potential techniques for breast cancer detection. Potential EM techniques are discussed in this paper.

Keywords

bioelectric potentials; biomagnetism; biomedical optical imaging; cancer; electric impedance imaging; mammography; microwave imaging; optical tomography; radiometry; MRI; X-ray mammography; breast cancer detection; breast cancer research; clinical examination; early cancer detection; electromagnetic imaging; screening techniques; ultrasound; Breast cancer; Microwave imaging; Microwave radiometry; Microwave theory and techniques; Tumors; Biomagnetics; biopotential; breast cancer; diffuse optical tomography; electrical impedance tomography; microwave imaging; radiometry;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Biomedical Wireless Technologies, Networks, and Sensing Systems (BioWireleSS), 2011 IEEE Topical Conference on

Conference_Location

Phoenix, AZ

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8316-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-8317-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BIOWIRELESS.2011.5724362

Filename

5724362