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 …

Exploring the Potential of Sensing for Breast Cancer Detection

NA Chowdhury, L Wang, L Gu, M Kaya - Applied Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Breast cancer is a generalized global problem. Biomarkers are the active substances that
have been considered as the signature of the existence and evolution of cancer. Early …

Microwave imaging approach for breast cancer detection using a tapered slot antenna loaded with parasitic components

F Zerrad, M Taouzari, EM Makroum, JE Aoufi… - Materials, 2023 - mdpi.com
In this paper, a wideband antenna is proposed for ultra-wideband microwave imaging
applications. The antenna is comprised of a tapered slot ground, a rectangular slotted patch …

Evaluation of image reconstruction algorithms for confocal microwave imaging: Application to patient data

MA Elahi, D O'Loughlin, BR Lavoie, M Glavin, E Jones… - Sensors, 2018 - mdpi.com
Confocal Microwave Imaging (CMI) for the early detection of breast cancer has been under
development for over two decades and is currently going through early-phase clinical …

Pathway to demonstrating clinical efficacy of microwave breast imaging: Qualitative and quantitative performance assessment

E Porter, D O'Loughlin - … , RF and Microwaves in Medicine and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the last five years alone, there has been an increasing number of operational microwave
breast imaging systems used in clinical trials, with increasingly large and diverse patient …

[HTML][HTML] Circular slotted patch with defected grounded monopole patch antenna for microwave-based head imaging applications

M Samsuzzaman, MS Talukder, A Alqahtani… - Alexandria Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Medical microwave imaging (MWI) research has gained more attention in recent decades,
particularly with regard to the early detection of brain tumors. It offers numerous benefits over …

Microwave Breast Imaging: Experimental tumour phantoms for the evaluation of new breast cancer diagnosis systems

BL Oliveira, D O'Loughlin, M O'Halloran… - Biomedical Physics …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper, a new set of tumour phantoms for the experimental evaluation of Microwave
Breast Imaging (MBI) as a method to diagnose breast cancer is presented. The phantoms …

A 16‐modified antipodal Vivaldi antenna array for microwave‐based breast tumor imaging applications

M Samsuzzaman, MT Islam, MT Islam… - Microwave and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In this article, an improved method is introduced for enhancing the gain and directivity of a
modified antipodal Vivaldi antenna, which is suitable for detecting malignant cells in the …

An open-access experimental dataset for breast microwave imaging

T Reimer, J Krenkevich… - 2020 14th European …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Microwave imaging has shown potential for breast cancer screening, but further evaluation
of the clinical viability of breast microwave imaging (BMI) systems is required. Previous …

Sensitivity and specificity estimation using patient-specific microwave imaging in diverse experimental breast phantoms

D O'Loughlin, BL Oliveira, A Santorelli… - … on Medical Imaging, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Many new clinical investigations of microwave breast imaging have been published in
recent years. Trials with over one hundred participants have indicated the potential of …