Microwave breast imaging: Clinical advances and remaining challenges

D O'Loughlin, M O'Halloran… - IEEE Transactions …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Objective: Microwave breast imaging has seen significant academic and commercial
development in recent years, with four new operational microwave imaging systems used …

Review of microwaves techniques for breast cancer detection

MA Aldhaeebi, K Alzoubi, TS Almoneef, SM Bamatraf… - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
Conventional breast cancer detection techniques including X-ray mammography, magnetic
resonance imaging, and ultrasound scanning suffer from shortcomings such as excessive …

Open-ended coaxial probe technique for dielectric measurement of biological tissues: Challenges and common practices

A La Gioia, E Porter, I Merunka, A Shahzad… - Diagnostics, 2018 - mdpi.com
Electromagnetic (EM) medical technologies are rapidly expanding worldwide for both
diagnostics and therapeutics. As these technologies are low-cost and minimally invasive …

Dielectric properties characterization from 0.5 to 50 GHz of breast cancer tissues

A Martellosio, M Pasian, M Bozzi… - IEEE Transactions …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Knowledge of the dielectric properties of human tissues is important for several biomedical
applications, including imaging and hyperthermia treatment, as well as for determining …

Open-ended coaxial dielectric probe effective penetration depth determination

PM Meaney, AP Gregory, J Seppälä… - IEEE transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We have performed a series of experiments, which demonstrate the effect of open-ended
coaxial diameter on the depth of penetration. We used a two-layer configuration of a liquid …

Dielectric properties for non‐invasive detection of normal, benign, and malignant breast tissues using microwave theories

Y Cheng, M Fu - Thoracic cancer, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Background Despite the high incidence of breast cancer worldwide, methods for early non‐
invasive diagnosis and sensitive and specific prognostic evaluation remain difficult. In this …

An overview of microwave imaging for breast tumor detection

R Benny, TA Anjit, P Mythili - Progress In Electromagnetics Research B, 2020 - jpier.org
Microwave imaging (MWI) is a non-ionizing, non-invasive and an upcoming affordable
medical imaging modality. Over the last few decades, MWI has invited active research …

Simple and high-sensitivity dielectric constant measurement using a high-directivity microstrip coupled-line directional coupler

ZR Omam, V Nayyeri… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Simple methods using a microstrip coupled-line directional coupler (CLDC) are presented
for dielectric constant measurements. The material under test (MUT) is placed on the …

Review of breast screening: Toward clinical realization of microwave imaging

A Modiri, S Goudreau, A Rahimi, K Kiasaleh - Medical physics, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Microwave imaging (MI) technology has come a long way to introduce a noninvasive,
inexpensive, fast, convenient, and safe screening tool for clinical breast monitoring …

A homogeneous breast phantom measurement system with an improved modified microwave imaging antenna sensor

MT Islam, M Samsuzzaman, MT Islam, S Kibria… - sensors, 2018 - mdpi.com
Microwave breast imaging has been reported as having the most potential to become an
alternative or additional tool to the existing X-ray mammography technique for detecting …