Artificial breast phantom for microwave imaging modality

Author

Bakar, Afarulrazi Abu ; Abbosh, Amin ; Sharpe, Philip ; Bialkowski, M.

Author_Institution

Sch. of ITEE, Univ. of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

fYear

2010

fDate

Nov. 30 2010-Dec. 2 2010

Firstpage

385

Lastpage

388

Abstract

This paper discusses the development of an artificial heterogeneous breast phantom that emulates the electrical properties of human breast over the ultra wideband frequency range of 3.1GHz to 10.6GHz. The developed breast phantom has a realistic hemispherical shape and dielectric properties which are close to those of the different real breast tissues. This artificial breast phantom is to be used to test the reliability of the microwave imaging systems that are investigated for early breast cancer detection. The measured characteristics of the developed phantom validate its capability to emulate the characteristics of the real breasts.

Keywords

biomedical imaging; cancer; dielectric properties; mammography; microwave imaging; phantoms; artificial heterogeneous breast phantom; dielectric properties; early breast cancer detection; electrical properties; frequency 3.1 GHz to 10.6 GHz; hemispherical shape; microwave imaging; Antennas and propagation; Benchmark testing; Biological system modeling; Biomedical measurements; Cancer; Stability analysis; Breast phantom; breast cancer; microwave imaging;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Biomedical Engineering and Sciences (IECBES), 2010 IEEE EMBS Conference on

Conference_Location

Kuala Lumpur

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7599-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IECBES.2010.5742267

Filename

5742267