Experimental microwave breast cancer detection with oil-on-gelatin phantom

Author

Ruvio, G. ; Solimene, Raffaele ; Cuccaro, Antonio ; Browne, J.E. ; Gaetano, Domenico ; Ammann, M.J.

Author_Institution

CTVR, Trinity Coll. Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

fYear

2013

fDate

9-13 Sept. 2013

Firstpage

871

Lastpage

874

Abstract

This paper presents a 2-D breast phantom which was realized with oil-in-gelatin materials for the evaluation of three different tumor detection methods operated in the microwave spectrum 1-3 GHz. A planar monopole antenna was used to scan the phantom in a multi-monostatic configuration across 36 angular locations. Results show a better performance of an Interferometric-MUSIC approach when compared to Non-coherent Migration and Wide Band MUSIC.

Keywords

cancer; gelatin; microwave spectra; molecular biophysics; monopole antennas; oils; phantoms; tumours; 2D breast phantom; experimental microwave breast cancer detection; frequency 1 GHz to 3 GHz; interferometric-MUSIC approach; microwave spectrum; multimonostatic configuration; noncoherent migration; oil-in-gelatin materials; oil-on-gelatin phantom; planar monopole antenna; tumor detection methods; wide band MUSIC; Breast; Image reconstruction; Microwave antennas; Multiple signal classification; Phantoms; 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.2013.6632362

Filename

6632362