Title :
A comparative study of coherent time reversal minimum variance beamformers for breast cancer detection
Author :
Hossain, Md Delwar ; Mohan, Ananda Sanagavarapu
Author_Institution :
Centre for Health Technol., Univ. of Technol., Sydney, NSW, Australia
Abstract :
In this study we consider coherent processing for time reversal microwave imaging for breast cancer detection. We derive coherent time reversal standard Capon beamformer (C-TR-SCB) and coherent time reversal robust Capon beamformer (C-TR-RCB) and compare their imaging performances for breast cancer detection in anatomically realistic heterogeneous 3-D breast phantoms.
Keywords :
biological organs; biomedical imaging; cancer; finite difference time-domain analysis; microwave imaging; phantoms; C-TR-RCB; C-TR-SCB; anatomically realistic heterogeneous 3D breast phantoms; breast cancer detection; coherent time reversal; coherent time reversal robust Capon beamformer; coherent time reversal standard Capon beamformer; time reversal microwave imaging; Breast cancer; Imaging phantoms; Microwave imaging; Microwave theory and techniques; Tumors; breast cancer; coherent focusing; microwave imaging; robust Capon beamformer; standard Capon beamformer; time reversal; wavefield modeling;
Conference_Titel :
Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2015 9th European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Lisbon
