Title :
Investigations into cylindrical and planar configurations of a microwave imaging system for breast cancer detection
Author :
Khor, Wee Chang ; Bialkowski, Marek E.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Inf. Technol. & Electr. Eng., Queensland Univ., St. Lucia, Qld.
Abstract :
An experimental study concerning planar and cylindrical configurations of a microwave imaging system with step-frequency synthesized pulse for breast cancer detection is described. A simple phantom, consisting of a cylindrical plastic container with low dielectric constant material imitating fatty tissues and a small highly reflective object emulating tumour, is scanned with a probe antenna in the X-band. Different calibration schemes are considered for the successful detection of the target
Keywords :
cancer; medical image processing; microwave antennas; microwave imaging; object detection; tumours; breast cancer detection; cylindrical; cylindrical plastic container; fatty tissues; microwave imaging system; planar configurations; probe antenna; step-frequency synthesized pulse; tumour; Biological materials; Breast cancer; Cancer detection; Dielectric constant; Dielectric materials; Imaging phantoms; Microwave imaging; Plastic products; Probes; Tumors;
Conference_Titel :
Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium 2006, IEEE
Conference_Location :
Albuquerque, NM
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0123-2
DOI :
10.1109/APS.2006.1710506
