Design challenges of an UWB system for breast cancer detection

Author

Guo, Xuemei ; Casu, Mario R. ; Colonna, F. ; Crepaldi, Marco ; Demarchi, Danilo ; Graziano, Mariagrazia ; Zamboni, Maurizio

Author_Institution

Dipt. di Elettron. e Telecomun., Po-litecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy

fYear

2013

fDate

9-13 Sept. 2013

Firstpage

311

Lastpage

314

Abstract

In Ultra-Wideband (UWB) microwave imaging for breast cancer detection, UWB pulses illuminate the breast and the echoes are processed to create images. Adoption in screening campaigns requires the development of a fully-engineered medical imaging tool. In this paper we report on our experience with the design of this kind of UWB imaging system and illustrate some of the challenges the designers have to deal with at various levels, ranging from circuit-level choices to system-level architectural decisions, and to hardware/software partitioning of the imaging algorithms.

Keywords

biological tissues; biomedical electronics; biomedical equipment; cancer; mammography; microwave imaging; ultra wideband technology; UWB echoe processing; UWB imaging system design; UWB pulse; breast cancer detection; circuit-level choice; fully-engineered medical imaging tool development; hardware-software partitioning; imaging algorithm; system-level architectural decision; ultra-wideband microwave imaging; Breast cancer; Field programmable gate arrays; Imaging; Receivers; Skin; Tumors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA), 2013 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Torino

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5705-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICEAA.2013.6632242

Filename

6632242