A large-scale study of the ultrawideband microwave dielectric properties of normal, benign and malignant breast tissues obtained from cancer surgeries

By Mariya Lazebnik, D. Popovic, L. McCartney, C. B. Watkins, M. Lindstrom, J. Harter, S. Sewall, T. Ogilvie, A. Magliocco, T. Breslin and 5 more. Physics in Medicine and Biology, 2007

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Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Mechanics of Materials

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In Biomedical Engineering

1. Natalia K. Nikolova
2. Ram M. Narayanan
3. Ilangko Balasingham
4. Huiyuan Zhou
5. Rohit Chandra
6. Elise C. Fear
7. Susan C. Hagness
8. Barry D. Van Veen

In Electrical and Electronic Engineering

1. Natalia K. Nikolova
2. Susan C. Hagness
3. Barry D. Van Veen
4. Ram M. Narayanan
5. Ilangko Balasingham
6. Huiyuan Zhou
7. Rohit Chandra
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In Mechanics of Materials

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2. Ilangko Balasingham
3. Huiyuan Zhou
4. Rohit Chandra
5. Elise C. Fear
6. Natalia K. Nikolova
7. Susan C. Hagness
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Citations in the corpus

• Microwave Imaging for Breast Cancer (2011, background): “This could explain why the estimated contrasts between abnormal (benign and malignant) and normal breast tissues from microwave-tomography measurements are between 150% and 200%, especially in conductivity, [35], while those from ex vivo samples are reported as “no more than about 10%” [33].”
• Microwave Breast Imaging With a Monostatic Radar-Based System: A Study of Application to Patients (2013, background): “2255884 glandular tissues [8]; as tumors are often located in glandular tissues, this represents a significant challenge for detection and imaging of malignancies with microwaves.”
• Development of Anatomically Realistic Numerical Breast Phantoms with Accurate Dielectric Properties for Modeling Microwave Interactions with the Human Breast (2008, methodology): “dielectric heterogeneity reported in [32] and [33].”
• On the Opportunities and Challenges in Microwave Medical Sensing and Imaging (2015, background): “This difference is small when the cancerous tissue is compared with the healthy glandular or the fibro-connective breast tissue [36].”
• Microwaving Biological Cells: Intracellular Analysis with Microwave Dielectric Spectroscopy (2015, background): “to the possible discrimination of tumorous and healthy tissues [9]–[11].”
• Fast 3-D Tomographic Microwave Imaging for Breast Cancer Detection (2012, neutral): “erties between normal and malignant tissue [2]–[5].”