Anthropomorphic breast model repository for research and development of microwave breast imaging technologies

Microwave Breast Imaging

Heterogeneous Anthropomorphic Phantoms with Realistic Dielectric Properties for Microwave Breast Imaging Experiments.

We present a technique for fabricating realistic breast phantoms for microwave imaging experiments. Using oil-in-gelatin dispersions that mimic breast tissue dielectric properties at microwave frequencies, we constructed four heterogeneous phantoms spanning the full range of volumetric breast densities. We performed CT scans and dielectric properties measurements to characterize each phantom.

Heterogeneous Breast Phantom Development for Microwave Imaging Using Regression Models

As new algorithms for microwave imaging emerge, it is important to have standard accurate benchmarking tests. Currently, most researchers use homogeneous phantoms for testing new algorithms. These simple structures lack the heterogeneity of the dielectric properties of human tissue and are inadequate for testing these algorithms for medical imaging. To adequately test breast microwave imaging a...

Title : Microwave tomographic imaging for breast cancer

Microwave imaging has received a great amount of interest in last few decades in view of biomedical applications such as breast tumor detection. The potential advantages of microwave imaging as an alternative to X ray Computed Tomography (CT) are: i) the non negligible contrast that exists between the dielectric properties of normal and malignant breast tissues, ii) the non-ionizing nature of m...

Active Microwave Imaging for Breast Cancer Detection

Active microwave imaging is explored as an imaging modality for early detection of breast cancer. When exposed to microwaves, breast tumor exhibits electrical properties that are significantly different from that of healthy breast tissues. The two approaches of active microwave imaging — confocal microwave technique with measured reflected signals and microwave tomographic imaging with measured...