Microwave breast imaging: Clinical advances and remaining challenges

D O'Loughlin, M O'Halloran… - IEEE Transactions …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Objective: Microwave breast imaging has seen significant academic and commercial
development in recent years, with four new operational microwave imaging systems used …

Review and analysis of tumour detection and image quality analysis in experimental breast microwave sensing

T Reimer, S Pistorius - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
This review evaluates the methods used for image quality analysis and tumour detection in
experimental breast microwave sensing (BMS), a developing technology being investigated …

Pathway to demonstrating clinical efficacy of microwave breast imaging: Qualitative and quantitative performance assessment

E Porter, D O'Loughlin - … , RF and Microwaves in Medicine and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the last five years alone, there has been an increasing number of operational microwave
breast imaging systems used in clinical trials, with increasingly large and diverse patient …

[HTML][HTML] Dielectric characterization of diseased human trabecular bones at microwave frequency

B Amin, A Shahzad, L Farina, E Parle… - Medical engineering & …, 2020 - Elsevier
The objective of this study is to determine whether in vitro dielectric properties of human
trabecular bones, can distinguish between osteoporotic and osteoarthritis patients' bone …

Sensitivity and specificity estimation using patient-specific microwave imaging in diverse experimental breast phantoms

D O'Loughlin, BL Oliveira, A Santorelli… - … on Medical Imaging, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Many new clinical investigations of microwave breast imaging have been published in
recent years. Trials with over one hundred participants have indicated the potential of …

Weighted delay-and-sum beamformer for breast cancer detection using microwave imaging

SAS Karam, D O'Loughlin, BL Oliveira, M O'Halloran… - Measurement, 2021 - Elsevier
Many similarities exist between ultrasound and microwave imaging, however, ultrasound is
typically performed with a handheld transducer whereas antennas are placed around the …

Microwave bone imaging: A preliminary investigation on numerical bone phantoms for bone health monitoring

B Amin, A Shahzad, M O'Halloran, MA Elahi - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
Microwave tomography (MWT) can be used as an alternative modality for monitoring human
bone health. Studies have found a significant dielectric contrast between healthy and …

Development of 3D MRI-based anatomically realistic models of breast tissues and tumours for microwave imaging diagnosis

AC Pelicano, MCT Gonçalves, DM Godinho, T Castela… - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Breast cancer diagnosis using radar-based medical MicroWave Imaging (MWI) has been
studied in recent years. Realistic numerical and physical models of the breast are needed …

Anthropomorphic calcaneus phantom for microwave bone imaging applications

B Amin, A Shahzad, D Kelly… - IEEE Journal of …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent studies have found a significant dielectric contrast between healthy and osteoporotic
human trabecular bones. This dielectric contrast can be exploited by microwave imaging for …

Experimental validation of microwave imaging prototype and DBIM-IMATCS algorithm for bone health monitoring

B Amin, A Shahzad, M O'halloran, B Mcdermott… - IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The evaluation of the microwave imaging (MWI) prototype and imaging algorithms on
experimental bone phantoms is a precursor step before clinical testing for measuring in vivo …