Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication PrinciplesEarly breast tumor detection and imaging by using flat left-handed material lens

Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles

"Early Breast Tumor Detection and Imaging by Using Flat Left-Handed Material Lens"
by M.B. Taiel, A.T. Ibrahim, M.I. Badwy,
in the 26th National Radio Science Conference (NRSC 2009)

After careful and considered review of the content and authorship of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE\´s Publication Principles.

This paper has copied text and figures from the paper cited below. The original paper was copied without attribution (including appropriate references to the original author(s) and/or paper title) and without permission.

Due to the nature of this violation, reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to this paper, and future references should be made to the following article:

"Early Breast Tumor Detection and Imaging by Using Flat Left-Handed Material Lens"
by G. Wang, Y. Gong, J. Fang, H. Wang, http://staff.ustc.edu.cn/~gwang01/

Feasibility of a new approach by using flat left-handed material (LHM) lens for microwave early breast tumor detection is investigated. By combing two focus-scanning schemes in orthogonal directions and merging the two datasets calibrated, the longitudinal imaging resolution of flat LHM lens can be improved to the level of lateral imaging resolution. Two-dimensional finite-difference time domain simulations indicate that the losses of heterogeneous breast will degrade the focusing resolution of flat LHM lens to some extent, and tumors of diameters greater than 2 mm in breast model of no more than 50% random heterogeneity can be detected in the presence of random scatters such as glandular and ductile tissues. The proposed approach as imaging resolution of approximately 9 mm.