Dielectric characterization of carbon nanotube contrast agents for microwave breast cancer detection

A Mashal, B Sitharaman, JH Booske… - 2009 IEEE Antennas …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
contrast agents to determine how they affect the sensitivity of microwave imaging modalities.
In [2, 3], we describe the dielectric contrast-… ) as a contrast agent for microwave imaging. …

Microwave imaging of breast tumors with contrast agents: Theoretical study of dielectric contrast enhancement requirements

F Gao, BD Van Veen… - 2013 IEEE Antennas and …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… amount of contrast agents. One of the goals of this study is to determine the minimum
dielectric contrast required for reliable tumor detection. Different contrast agents lead to distinct …

Dielectric materials in magnetic resonance

AG Webb - Concepts in magnetic resonance part A, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
methods that confine EM energy within the dielectric material. One of the most common …
placing a dielectric pad made of ultrasound gel and doped with paramagnetic contrast agent on …

[PDF][PDF] Dielectric-properties contrast enhancement for microwave breast cancer detection: Numerical investigations of microbubble contrast agents

M Lazebnik, JH Booske, SC Hagness - Proc. URSI General Assembly …, 2008 - ursi.org
… The accumulation of contrast agent particles in a breast tumor is … method (QS-FEM), as well
as a 2D finitedifference time-domain (FDTD) approach. The advantages of the former method

Nanoparticles as contrast agents for in-vivo bioimaging: current status and future perspectives

MA Hahn, AK Singh, P Sharma, SC Brown… - Analytical and …, 2011 - Springer
… Yet another challenge for this class of contrast agents is the development of robust methods
… Various gold [42, 80–87], gold–dielectric hybrid [88–90], and multimodal materials [83, 91], …

Advances in molecular imaging: targeted optical contrast agents for cancer diagnostics

A Hellebust, R Richards-Kortum - Nanomedicine, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
contrast agent targeting a specific biomarker of clinical relevance; a method to safely deliver
the contrast agent to … Metallic nanoparticles with a dielectric core/metallic shell composition …

Contrast agents for photoacoustic and thermoacoustic imaging: a review

D Wu, L Huang, MS Jiang, H Jiang - International journal of molecular …, 2014 - mdpi.com
… and blood oxygenation and tissue dielectric properties relevant to physiology and pathology.
These two methods, however, may have a limited detection depth and lack of endogenous …

Contrast-enhanced microwave imaging of breast tumors: a computational study using 3D realistic numerical phantoms

JD Shea, P Kosmas, BD Van Veen… - Inverse problems, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
… such methods offer a complete mapping of the dielectric profile … the use of exogenous contrast
agents in microwave imaging … their dielectric properties after the introduction of the agents. …

A theoretical approach based on electromagnetic scattering for analysing dielectric shimming in high‐field MRI

WM Brink, RF Remis, AG Webb - Magnetic resonance in …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
… an inversion method for the design of dielectric pads. … Furthermore, inverse scattering
methods from remote sensing … a numerical method that can optimize the design of dielectric pads …

Multistage nanovectors: from concept to novel imaging contrast agents and therapeutics

B Godin, E Tasciotti, X Liu, RE Serda… - Accounts of chemical …, 2011 - ACS Publications
… a dielectric silicon nitride (SiN) film, an array of particle patterns is first transferred to a dielectric
… While direct conjugation of imaging agents to the surface of S1MP provided a method to …