Microwave sensors for breast cancer detection

L Wang - Sensors, 2018 - mdpi.com
Breast cancer is the leading cause of death among females, early diagnostic methods with
suitable treatments improve the 5-year survival rates significantly. Microwave breast imaging …

Review of electromagnetic techniques for breast cancer detection

AM Hassan, M El-Shenawee - IEEE Reviews in Biomedical …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Breast cancer is anticipated to be responsible for almost 40,000 deaths in the USA in 2011.
The current clinical detection techniques suffer from limitations which motivated researchers …

Metamaterial-inspired antenna array for application in microwave breast imaging systems for tumor detection

M Alibakhshikenari, BS Virdee, P Shukla… - IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a study of a planar antenna-array inspired by the metamaterial concept
where the resonant elements have sub-wavelength dimensions for application in microwave …

Microwave imaging for breast cancer

NK Nikolova - IEEE microwave magazine, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Microwaves and millimeter waves have been used extensively to image dielectric bodies.
The application of microwaves in biomedical imaging and diagnostics, however, remains a …

Flexible 16 antenna array for microwave breast cancer detection

H Bahramiabarghouei, E Porter… - IEEE Transactions …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Radar-based microwave imaging has been widely studied for breast cancer detection in
recent times. Sensing dielectric property differences of tissues has been studied over a wide …

MARIA M4: clinical evaluation of a prototype ultrawideband radar scanner for breast cancer detection

AW Preece, I Craddock, M Shere… - Journal of Medical …, 2016 - spiedigitallibrary.org
A microwave imaging system has been developed as a clinical diagnostic tool operating in
the 3-to 8-GHz region using multistatic data collection. A total of 86 patients recruited from a …

Microwave radar-based differential breast cancer imaging: Imaging in homogeneous breast phantoms and low contrast scenarios

M Klemm, JA Leendertz, D Gibbins… - … on Antennas and …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents an improved antenna array for radar-based breast cancer imaging. The
improvement was achieved by increasing the number of antennas in the array to 31 …

A survey of radar systems for medical applications

S Pisa, E Pittella, E Piuzzi - IEEE Aerospace and Electronic …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A survey of radar systems used in the medical field is presented. First, medical applications
of radars are described, and some emerging research fields are highlighted. Then, medical …

A survey on antenna designs for breast cancer detection using microwave imaging

HM El Misilmani, T Naous, SK Al Khatib… - IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the prevalence of breast cancer among women and the shortcomings of conventional
techniques in detecting breast cancer at its early stages, microwave breast imaging has …

Ultra‐wideband antennas for wireless communication applications

T Saeidi, I Ismail, WP Wen… - … Journal of Antennas …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
A review paper concerning wide‐band and ultra‐wideband (UWB) antennas used for
wireless communication purposes in terms of the materials as well as a numerical analysis …