Feasibility study of a novel microwave breast cancer imaging approach exploiting Magnetic Nanoparticle as contrast agents

Author

Bellizzi, G. ; Bucci, O.M. ; Catapano, I. ; Crocco, L. ; Scapaticci, R.

Author_Institution

DIBET, Univ. of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy

fYear

2012

fDate

8-14 July 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

The paper deals with Microwave Imaging (MWI) of breast cancer and aims at investigating the feasibility of an approach, recently proposed, which exploits Magnetic Nanoparticles (MNP) as magnetic contrast agents selectively delivered to the tumor. The numerical study herein presented is mainly devoted to test the reconstruction capabilities of the approach in quasi realistic conditions. To this purpose, 3D anthropomorphic breast phantom and an experimental characterization of the MNP response have been considered.

Keywords

biological organs; cancer; image reconstruction; magnetic particles; medical image processing; microwave imaging; nanomedicine; nanoparticles; numerical analysis; phantoms; tumours; 3D anthropomorphic breast phantom; MNP response; magnetic contrast agents; magnetic nanoparticle; novel microwave breast cancer imaging approach; numerical study; quasirealistic conditions; reconstruction capabilities; tumor; Breast; Magnetic resonance imaging; Magnetic separation; Magnetostatics; Microwave imaging; Tumors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (APSURSI), 2012 IEEE

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

ISSN

1522-3965

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0461-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2012.6348909

Filename

6348909