Biomedical microwave-induced thermoacoustic imaging

Q Liu, X Liang, W Qi, Y Gong, H Jiang… - Journal of Innovative …, 2022 - World Scientific
Microwave-induced thermoacoustic imaging (MTAI) has emerged as a potential biomedical
imaging modality with over 20-year growth. MTAI typically employs pulsed microwave as the …

A review of microwave-induced thermoacoustic imaging: Excitation source, data acquisition system and biomedical applications

Y Cui, C Yuan, Z Ji - Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences, 2017 - World Scientific
Microwave-induced thermoacoustic imaging (TAI) is a noninvasive modality based on the
differences in microwave absorption of various biological tissues. TAI has been extensively …

Three-dimensional microwave-induced thermoacoustic imaging based on compressive sensing using an analytically constructed dictionary

B Wang, Y Sun, Z Wang, X Wang - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Microwave-induced thermoacoustic imaging (MITAI) has found diversified applications in
biomedical related disciplines and holds the potential to serve as an auxiliary measure for …

A handheld microwave thermoacoustic imaging system with an impedance matching microwave-sono probe for breast tumor screening

L Wu, Z Cheng, Y Ma, Y Li, M Ren… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Microwave-induced thermoacoustic imaging (MTAI) is a promising alternative for breast
tumor detection due to its deep imaging depth, high resolution, and minimal biological …

Focused microwave breast hyperthermia monitored by thermoacoustic imaging: A computational feasibility study applying realistic breast phantoms

L Xu, X Wang - IEEE Journal of Electromagnetics, RF and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Focused microwave breast hyperthermia (FMBH) represents a newly emerging technique
endowed with advantages of high accuracy and low side effect for treating breast tumors …

Ultrashort-pulse-microwave excited whole-breast thermoacoustic imaging with uniform field of large size aperture antenna for tumor screening

S Zhao, H Wang, Y Li, L Nie, S Zhang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Microwave-induced thermoacoustic imaging (MTAI) has been widely used in biomedical
science, and has the potential as an auxiliary measure for clinical diagnosis and treatment …

A low-cost compressive thermoacoustic tomography system for hot and cold foreign bodies detection

Y Sun, C Li, B Wang, X Wang - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Microwave-induced thermoacoustic tomography (MITAT) is suitable for detecting foreign
bodies (FBs) in human body due to the sufficient microwave contrast between the FBs and …

Homogenizing microwave illumination in thermoacoustic tomography by a linear-to-circular polarizer based on frequency selective surfaces

Y He, Y Shen, X Feng, C Liu, LV Wang - Applied Physics Letters, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
A circularly polarized antenna, providing more homogeneous illumination compared to a
linearly polarized antenna, is more suitable for microwave induced thermoacoustic …

Microwave-induced thermoacoustic imaging for embedded explosives detection in high-water content medium

X Wang, T Qin, Y Qin, AH Abdelrahman… - … on Antennas and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Improvised explosive devices (IEDs) have always been a major threat to personnel safety
with continuous evolutions and new variants. Traditional methods for detecting IEDs, such …

Microwave-excited ultrasound and thermoacoustic dual imaging

W Ding, Z Ji, D Xing - Applied Physics Letters, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
We designed a microwave-excited ultrasound (MUI) and thermoacoustic dual imaging
system. Under the pulsed microwave excitation, the piezoelectric transducer used for …