Title :
Active microwave imaging: a cylindrical system for biomedical applications
Author :
Jofre, L. ; Broquetas, A. ; Hawley, M.S.
Author_Institution :
ETSI Telecomunicacion Barcelona, Spain
Abstract :
The authors examine the use of active microwave tomography as an imaging technique which gives information on the dielectric properties of the body. They show that a cylindrical system is an efficient option to obtain multiview data. The system is described and the philosophy of the reconstruction algorithm is outlined. Some experimental results are presented for the permittivity reconstruction of a human forearm cross-section
Keywords :
antenna arrays; bioelectric phenomena; biomedical equipment; biomedical measurement; computerised picture processing; medical diagnostic computing; microwave antennas; microwave imaging; permittivity measurement; Born approximation; active microwave tomography; biomedical applications; cylindrical system; dielectric properties; digitised data; human forearm cross-section; image reconstruction; microwave imaging; multiview data; permittivity reconstruction; reconstruction algorithm;
Conference_Titel :
Medical Applications of Microwaves, IEE Colloquium on
Conference_Location :
London
