Flexible 16 antenna array for microwave breast cancer detection

H Bahramiabarghouei, E Porter… - IEEE Transactions …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Radar-based microwave imaging has been widely studied for breast cancer detection in
recent times. Sensing dielectric property differences of tissues has been studied over a wide …

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 …

An early clinical study of time-domain microwave radar for breast health monitoring

E Porter, M Coates, M Popović - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This study reports on monthly scans of healthy patient volunteers with the clinical prototype
of a microwave imaging system. The system uses time-domain measurements, and …

Experimental breast phantoms for estimation of breast tumor using microwave imaging systems

MT Islam, M Samsuzzaman, S Kibria, MT Islam - IEEE Access, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, the preparation and the measurement of a set of human breast phantoms for
microwave breast imaging (MBI) as a method of tumor detection are presented. The …

Microwave Breast Imaging: Experimental tumour phantoms for the evaluation of new breast cancer diagnosis systems

BL Oliveira, D O'Loughlin, M O'Halloran… - Biomedical Physics …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper, a new set of tumour phantoms for the experimental evaluation of Microwave
Breast Imaging (MBI) as a method to diagnose breast cancer is presented. The phantoms …

Microwave breast imaging using a dry setup

JM Felicio, JM Bioucas-Dias, JR Costa… - IEEE Transactions …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article demonstrates for the first time, both numerically and experimentally, the
feasibility of radar-based microwave imaging of anthropomorphic heterogeneously dense …

Investigation of histology region in dielectric measurements of heterogeneous tissues

E Porter, M O'Halloran - IEEE Transactions on Antennas and …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The dielectric properties of tissues are the key parameters in electromagnetic medical
technologies. Despite the apparent simplicity of the dielectric measurement process …

Microwave breast cancer detection via cost-sensitive ensemble classifiers: Phantom and patient investigation

Y Li, E Porter, A Santorelli, M Popović… - … Signal Processing and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Microwave breast screening has been proposed as a complementary modality to the current
standard of X-ray mammography. In this work, we design three ensemble classification …

Effects of the plastic of the realistic GeePS-L2S-Breast phantom

T Rydholm, A Fhager, M Persson, SD Geimer… - Diagnostics, 2018 - mdpi.com
A breast phantom developed at the Supelec Institute was interrogated to study its suitability
for microwave tomography measurements. A microwave measurement system based on 16 …

A time-domain microwave system for breast cancer detection using a flexible circuit board

A Santorelli, E Porter, E Kang, T Piske… - IEEE Transactions …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present the design of a flexible multilayer circuit board for use in a custom-built
microwave system for breast health monitoring. The flexible circuit features both an …