Title :
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
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/EuCAP.2012.6206024
