3D Microwave bone imaging

Author

Meaney, Paul M. ; Goodwin, Douglas ; Golnabi, Amir ; Pallone, Matthew ; Geimer, Shireen ; Paulsen, Keith D.

Author_Institution

Thayer Sch. of Eng., Dartmouth Coll., Hanover, NH, USA

fYear

2012

fDate

26-30 March 2012

Firstpage

1770

Lastpage

1771

Abstract

We are developing a microwave imaging system for interrogating the calcaneus bone as a way of monitoring bone health progression in diseases such as osteoporosis. We have previously shown that the dielectric properties of trabecular bone correspond well to the associated bone volume fraction which can be used as a good indicator of fracture risk. We present 3D results showing that the technique is sophisticated enough to recover the pertinent structures and that ultimately this technique will be sufficiently sensitive for disease monitoring.

Keywords

bone; diseases; fracture; microwave imaging; patient monitoring; 3D microwave bone imaging; bone health progression monitoring; bone volume fraction; calcaneus bone; dielectric properties; disease monitoring; fracture risk; osteoporosis; trabecular bone; Bones; Microwave antennas; Microwave imaging; Microwave theory and techniques; Three dimensional displays; Tomography; bone; dielectric property; microwave tomography; osteoporosis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation (EUCAP), 2012 6th European Conference on

Conference_Location

Prague

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0918-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4577-0919-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EuCAP.2012.6206024

Filename

6206024