Breast cancer imaging techniques using UWB microwave imaging

Author

Yang, Fan ; Mohan, Ananda S.

Author_Institution

Centre for Health Technol., Univ. of Technol. Sydeny (UTS), Sydney, NSW, Australia

fYear

2010

fDate

20-24 Sept. 2010

Firstpage

305

Lastpage

308

Abstract

This paper proposes a method that combines a data-independent beamformer with Matrix Pencil (MP) method to take into consideration the morphological properties of the malignant tissue. The simulated results have shown the resonant frequency and damping factor of complex natural resonance (CNR) are capable of differentiating the malignant tissue from other significant interferers such as benign lesions. The investigations employed computational 2D breast models that are based on Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) method.

Keywords

array signal processing; cancer; finite difference time-domain analysis; mammography; microwave imaging; ultra wideband technology; FDTD method; UWB microwave imaging; benign lesions; breast cancer imaging techniques; complex natural resonance; computational 2D breast models; damping factor; data independent beamformer; finite difference time domain method; malignant tissue morphological properties; matrix pencil method; resonant frequency; Breast; Cancer; Dielectrics; Microwave imaging; Microwave theory and techniques; Resonant frequency;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Sydney, NSW

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7366-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICEAA.2010.5651408

Filename

5651408