An overview of ultra-wideband microwave imaging via space-time beamforming for early-stage breast-cancer detection

By Xu Li, Essex J. Bond, Barry D. Van Veen, Susan C. Hagness. IEEE Antennas & Propagation Magazine, 2005

381 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Mechanics of Materials, Ocean Engineering

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/bd333de422105f93ea7119d4faa966aa87069956

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Biomedical Engineering

In Mechanics of Materials

In Ocean Engineering

Citations in the corpus

Radar-Based Breast Cancer Detection Using a Hemispherical Antenna Array—Experimental Results (2009, methodology): “Delay-and-sum (DAS) beamforming is a basic and wellknown method [16], [28], [ 29 ].”
A large-scale study of the ultrawideband microwave dielectric properties of normal breast tissue obtained from reduction surgeries (2007, background): “…2001, Fear et al 2002a, 2002b, 2003, Bond et al 2003, Hernandez-Lopez et al 2003, Nilavalan et al 2003, Zhang et al 2003, El-Shenawee 2004, Huo et al 2004, Li et al 2004, Davis et al 2005, Li et al 2005, Winters et al 2006) and hyperthermia treatment (Fenn et al 1999, Converse et al 2004, 2006).”
Design of Ultrawideband Planar Monopole Antennas of Circular and Elliptical Shape (2008, background): “This is motivated by the fact that such signals offer an increased resolution of imaged objects [ 2 ]–[4].”
Fast 3-D Tomographic Microwave Imaging for Breast Cancer Detection (2012, background): “With respect to radar technology, the most advanced concepts appear to be confocal microwave imaging [10]–[13] and near field synthetic focusing [14].”
A large-scale study of the ultrawideband microwave dielectric properties of normal, benign and malignant breast tissues obtained from cancer surgeries (2007, neutral): “…et al 2003, Zhang et al 2003, Converse et al 2004, El-Shenawee 2004, Huo et al 2004, Li et al 2004, Vargas et al 2004, Davis et al 2005, Fear 2005, Li et al 2005, Converse et al 2006, Kosmas et al 2006, Winters et al 2006, Xie et al 2006, Chen et al 2007, Meaney et al 2007, Zastrow et al 2007).”
Design of Compact Directional Couplers for UWB Applications (2007, methodology): “Our particular interest in these devices is with respect to developing an ultra-wideband (UWB) microwave imaging system for breast cancer detection [5], [6].”
Development of Anatomically Realistic Numerical Breast Phantoms with Accurate Dielectric Properties for Modeling Microwave Interactions with the Human Breast (2008, background): “The body of work on microwave breast cancer detection is quite diverse, and includes narrow-band and wideband inverse scattering or tomographic techniques [6]‐[10]; ultrawideband radar and other time-domain techniques, such as time reversal [ 11 ]‐[15]; microwave-induced thermoacoustic tomography [1”