An Experimental Study on Microwave Imaging of Breast Cancer with the use of Tumor Phantom (original) (raw)
2017
─ Nowadays, breast cancer is the most common type of the cancer among women’s diseases. It is the leading cause of death after cardiovascular diseases. Due to risk of uncontrolled reproduction and propagation of the cancer cells, early diagnosis has a crucial importance. Microwave imaging (MWI) is an evolving method and has a variety of advantages such as operating at lower frequencies with a lower power, cost-effectiveness, and providing comfortable measurements without contact. In this paper, an experimental study on microwave imaging of breast cancer with the use of tumor phantom is presented. For this purpose, an experimental setup containing sand, screw and tumor phantom is prepared as replacement of real tissue. Two-dimensional inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) method is used in handling the scattered electric field data from the measurement setup. Inverse radon transform (IRT) method is then utilized to extract the image of the measured scattering electric field data. T...
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