Microwave tomographic spectroscopy for an assessment tissue oxygenation

Author

Semenov, S. ; Kellam, J. ; Williams, T. ; Quinn, M. ; Nicholson, B. ; Thirunavukkarasu, S.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Med., Keele Univ., Stoke-on-Trent, UK

fYear

2012

fDate

26-30 March 2012

Firstpage

1784

Lastpage

1785

Abstract

Microwave tomography, being a novel imaging modality, has potentials for an assessment of functional and pathological conditions of biological tissues. The examples are: tissue malignancies, with recent major focus on breast cancer detection, tissue blood content, ischemia, infarction, stroke and others. Early in non-imaging experiments we have demonstrated the feasibility of the technology for an assessment of tissue oxygenation status. The goal of this preliminary study was to use microwave tomographic spectroscopy for an assessment of tissue oxygenation status during an imaging procedure of swine medial foreleg.

Keywords

blood; cancer; microwave imaging; microwave spectroscopy; oximetry; tumours; biological tissues; breast cancer detection; functional conditions; imaging modality; infarction; ischemia; microwave tomographic spectroscopy; pathological conditions; stroke; swine medial foreleg; tissue blood content; tissue malignancies; tissue oxygenation assessment; Dielectrics; Image reconstruction; Microwave imaging; Myocardium; Spectroscopy; Tomography; functional imaging; microwave tomography; tissue oxygenation;

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.2012.6206563

Filename

6206563