Title :
Electromagnetic imaging for breast cancer research
Author :
El-Shenawee, Magda
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, USA
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/BIOWIRELESS.2011.5724362
