Breast surface reconstruction algorithm for a multi-static radar-based breast imaging system

Author

Sarafianou, M. ; Gibbins, D.R. ; Craddock, I.J. ; Klemm, M. ; Leendertz, J.A. ; Preece, A. ; Benjamin, R.

Author_Institution

Centre for Commun. Res., Univ. of Bristol, Bristol, UK

fYear

2010

fDate

12-16 April 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

The estimation of the skin reflection is a crucial step towards successful breast tumour detection. This paper investigates the two-dimensional improved version of an existing general purpose technique for estimating target objects of arbitrary shape. The ability of the proposed method in estimating the breast skin location is tested over a wide range of realistic FDTD-based scenarios with results demonstrating accurate estimation of the breast skin location.

Keywords

finite difference time-domain analysis; mammography; medical signal detection; radar applications; skin; tumours; FDTD-based scenarios; breast skin location; breast surface reconstruction algorithm; breast tumour detection; multi-static radar-based breast imaging system; skin reflection; two-dimensional version; Antenna arrays; Breast cancer; Cancer detection; Finite difference methods; Optical imaging; Radar antennas; Radar detection; Reconstruction algorithms; Skin; Surface reconstruction;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2010 Proceedings of the Fourth European Conference on

Conference_Location

Barcelona

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6431-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-84-7653-472-4

Type

conf

Filename

5505891