A clinical prototype for active microwave imaging of the breast

By P. Meaney, M. Fanning, Dun Li, S. Poplack, Keith D. Paulsen. 2000

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Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging

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Microwave imaging via space-time beamforming for early detection of breast cancer (2002, background): “The smallest malignant-to-normal contrast in dielectric constant suggested in the literature is approximately 2:1 [12].”
Microwave Breast Imaging With a Monostatic Radar-Based System: A Study of Application to Patients (2013, background): “The first prototype systems for and human tests of microwave tomography for breast imaging were reported by a group at Dartmouth College [2], [17].”
On the Opportunities and Challenges in Microwave Medical Sensing and Imaging (2015, methodology): “Newton-type [86], [87] No Yes Yes Yes Single freq.”
Microwave Imaging for Breast Cancer (2011, methodology): “It may then be suspended in a tank of coupling liquid [56], [57], or be slightly compressed between two plates [58], [59] as shown in Figure 4(b), or be placed in a constraining cup of suitable size and shape [60]–[65].”
A large-scale study of the ultrawideband microwave dielectric properties of normal breast tissue obtained from reduction surgeries (2007, background): “Accordingly, researchers have begun to explore the feasibility of microwave techniques for breast cancer detection (Hagness et al 1998, Meaney et al 2000, Bulyshev et al 2001, Li and Hagness 2001, Fear et al 2002a, 2002b, 2003, Bond et al 2003, Hernandez-Lopez et al 2003, Nilavalan et al 2003, Zha”
Confocal Microwave Imaging for Breast Cancer Detection: Delay-Multiply-and-Sum Image Reconstruction Algorithm (2008, background): “The active approaches rely on the significant electrical properties contrast between malignant and normal breast tissues at microwave frequencies [6], and two different types of technique have achieved promising results: microwave tomography [7] and ultra-wideband (UWB) microwave imaging [8]–[14].”
An overview of ultra-wideband microwave imaging via space-time beamforming for early-stage breast-cancer detection (2005, methodology): “imaging research studies has been developed [ 26 ].”
Microwave Imaging Within the First-Order Born Approximation by Means of the Contrast-Field Bayesian Compressive Sensing (2012, neutral): “Interesting results, from both methodological [16]–[18], [20]–[28] and technological [29]–[31] viewpoints, have been achieved and reported in the scientific literature.”
Enhancing breast tumor detection with near-field imaging (2002, background): “for Breast Cancer Detection Several research groups are investigating microwave tomography for breast cancer detection [ 12 ]-[15].”
Confocal microwave imaging for breast cancer detection: localization of tumors in three dimensions (2002, neutral): “Promising initial experimental results for breast imaging have been obtained recently [17], [18].”