Microwave breast cancer detection

Author

Fear, E.C. ; Stuchly, M.A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Victoria Univ., BC, Canada

Volume

2

fYear

2000

fDate

11-16 June 2000

Firstpage

1037

Abstract

A system for microwave breast cancer detection is described, further extending ideas from the previously introduced technique of microwave confocal imaging. The breast is immersed in a liquid with electrical properties similar to skin or breast tissue, but of low loss. The characteristics of resistively loaded dipole antennas in the immersion media are investigated. The influences of the number of antennas and immersion medium on reconstructed images are examined. Results indicate successful detection of 6 mm diameter tumors with both immersion media, and larger tumor returns with the system immersed in skin.

Keywords

cancer; mammography; microwave imaging; tumours; 6 mm; liquid electrical properties; liquid immersion; medical diagnostic imaging; microwave breast cancer detection; microwave confocal imaging; reconstructed images; resistively loaded dipole antennas; skin tissue; Breast cancer; Breast neoplasms; Breast tissue; Cancer detection; Dipole antennas; Image reconstruction; Loaded antennas; Microwave imaging; Microwave theory and techniques; Skin neoplasms;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Symposium Digest. 2000 IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

Boston, MA, USA

ISSN

0149-645X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5687-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSYM.2000.863534

Filename

863534