Title:
Experimental Tests of Microwave Breast Cancer Detection on Phantoms
Author(s):
Sara M. Salvador, Giuseppe Vecchi
Source:
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION
Vol./Issue/Date:
Year:
2009
Page(s):
Keywords:
Breast cancer detection, experimental verification, microwave imaging, tissue phantoms, ultrawideband (UWB) antennas
Abstract:
We report on experimental tests of microwave breast cancer detection using the radar-based imaging method and breast phantoms, i.e., structures whose size and shape are similar to reality, and whose electric properties are close to those known for the normal and tumoral tissues. Different antennas have been designed, fabricated and tested in operation in the experimental setup. Measurements were carried out in the frequency domain, with transient response synthetically obtained via numerical processing of data.We have found that alcohol is a useful coupling medium, and devised a practical arrangement to avoid contact between the breast and such a medium. We propose a new algorithm to reduce the sensitivity of the reconstruction algorithm to the assumption of the propagation velocity of the wave in the background and in the normal tissue. In our experiments, the contrast between the media simulating normal and tumoral tissues was between 1.65 and 2.45 in permittivity and 0.45 to 1.45 in conductivity.We were able to correctly detect tumor-simulating
obstacles with 1 cm diameter, without false positives. We have found that the band below 1 GHz was of paramount importance for the correct imaging, while we did not observe significant advantages in including the band between 1 and 9 GHz
Document:
Reference Id:
536
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