A feasibility study on microwave imaging of bone for osteoporosis monitoring

B Amin, A Shahzad, L Crocco, M Wang… - Medical & Biological …, 2021 - Springer
The dielectric properties of bones are found to be influenced by the demineralisation of
bones. Therefore, microwave imaging (MWI) can be used to monitor in vivo dielectric …

Monitoring bone density using microwave tomography of human legs: a numerical feasibility study

M Alkhodari, A Zakaria, N Qaddoumi - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
A major cause of bone mass loss worldwide is osteoporosis. X-ray is considered to be the
gold-standard technique to diagnose this disease. However, there is currently a need for an …

Using prior information to enhance microwave tomography images in bone health assessment

M Alkhodari, A Zakaria, N Qaddoumi - BioMedical Engineering OnLine, 2022 - Springer
Background Osteoporosis is the major cause of bone weakness and fragility in more than 10
million people in the United States. This disease causes bone fractures in the hip or spine …

Microwave Bone Imaging: Reconstruction of Anthropomorphic Numerical Calcaneus Phantoms for Bone Diseases Diagnosis

A Cannatà, A Elahi, M O'Halloran, M Pasian… - IEEE …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Microwave Tomography (MWT) is emerging as a potential imaging technique for monitoring
bone health due to its ability to determine the dielectric properties of tissues under …

Numerical assessment of microwave bone imaging: Reconstruction of realistic phantoms for diagnosing different bone diseases

A Cannatà, A Shahzad, M O'Halloran… - 2023 24th …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Microwave imaging (MWI) can be used as an alternative modality for monitoring human
bone health. So far, studies on microwave bone imaging have considered bone as a …

A Planar-Array Based Ultra Wideband Microwave Imaging Approach for Musculoskeletal Visualization

H Zhang, T Bauer, C Statz, J Goronzy… - IEEE Journal of …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Current diagnostic techniques for visualizing bones rely on X-rays, which pose potential
harm to both patients and surgical staff. Consequently, the demand for a portable imaging …

Microwave bone imaging: experimental evaluation of calcaneus bone phantom and imaging prototype

B Amin, C Sheridan, D Kelly, A Shahzad… - 2020 IEEE MTT-S …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Microwave imaging (MWI) can be used as an alternate imaging modality for monitoring bone
health. Evaluation and characterization of MWI prototype is a precursor step before in vivo …

Coupling media in microwave imaging: dielectric properties and temperature dependence

MJ Cervantes, MN Orzuza, CF Caiafa… - Congreso Argentino de …, 2022 - Springer
In the microwave imaging method, it is usual to use liquids as coupling medium. These are
also used for the development of phantoms for calibration and validation of reconstruction …

Estimation of Risk Factors Related to Heart Diseases With Multilayer Perceptron Model

M Gunata, AK Arslan, C Çolak, H Parlakpınar - Medical Records, 2021 - dergipark.org.tr
Aim: Heart diseases (HD) refer to many diseases such as coronary heart disease, heart
failure, and heart attack. Every year, approximately 647.000 people die in the United States …

A Software Tool for Microwave Tomography

MJ Cervantes, J Gómez, D Luparello… - Congreso Argentino de …, 2023 - Springer
The objective of this work was to show the development of an open-source software tool in
Python code for microwave tomography. The forward problem was solved by three …