Microwave breast cancer detection via flanged parallel-plate dielectric waveguide probe

Author

Zhang, H. ; Tan, S.Y. ; Tan, H.S.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore, Singapore

fYear

2009

fDate

14-18 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

166

Lastpage

169

Abstract

This paper presents an improved method for microwave detection of breast cancer with a flanged parallel-plate dielectric waveguide probe, based on detecting the dielectric contrast between a tumor and the surrounding breast tissue. Presence of a tumor is derived from the resonant characteristics of the backscattered signal received. Simulations demonstrate a good return loss over a useful bandwidth and the effectiveness to detect an object with dielectric contrast from its surrounding medium.

Keywords

biomedical measurement; cancer; dielectric properties; dielectric waveguides; mammography; medical signal detection; microwave imaging; tumours; backscattered signal; dielectric contrast; flanged parallel-plate dielectric waveguide probe; microwave breast cancer detection; normal breast tissue; return loss; tumor; Bandwidth; Breast cancer; Breast neoplasms; Breast tissue; Cancer detection; Dielectric losses; Microwave theory and techniques; Object detection; Probes; Resonance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications, 2009. ICEAA '09. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Torino

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3385-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3386-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICEAA.2009.5297542

Filename

5297542