Preliminary test of a prototype of microwave axial tomograph for medical applications

Author

Maffongelli, Manuela ; Poretti, Samuel ; Salvade, Andrea ; Monleone, Ricardo D. ; Meani, Francesco ; Fedeli, Alessandro ; Pastorino, Matteo ; Randazzo, Andrea

Author_Institution

Dept. of Technol. & Innovation, Univ. of Appl. Sci. of Southern Switzerland, Manno, Switzerland

fYear

2015

fDate

7-9 May 2015

Firstpage

46

Lastpage

51

Abstract

An existing prototype of microwave imaging tomograph, previously designed by the present Authors for non destructive testing (NDT) applications, has been adapted in order to deal with biomedical targets. The developed system allows collecting multi-view multi-frequency data. An efficient inversion procedure is used to retrieve the distributions of the dielectric properties from the measured field samples. Some numerical simulations aimed at validating the proposed system and preliminary measurement results obtained by using a breast phantom are presented in this paper.

Keywords

cancer; dielectric properties; microwave imaging; numerical analysis; phantoms; tomography; breast phantom; dielectric property distributions; microwave axial tomograph; microwave imaging tomograph; multiview multifrequency data collection; nondestructive testing applications; numerical simulations; Antenna measurements; Breast; Dielectric measurement; Microwave imaging; Microwave measurement; Microwave theory and techniques; Phantoms; Biomedical imaging; breast cancer; electromagnetic scattering; microwave imaging;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Medical Measurements and Applications (MeMeA), 2015 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Turin

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MeMeA.2015.7145170

Filename

7145170