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http://dx.doi.org/10.9718/JBER.2007.28.4.471

Development of Effective Analytical Signal Models for Functional Microwave Imaging  

Baang, Sung-Keun (Division of Information Engineering and Telecommunications, Hallym University)
Kim, Jong-Dae (Division of Information Engineering and Telecommunications, Hallym University)
Lee, Yong-Up (Division of Information Engineering and Telecommunications, Hallym University)
Park, Chan-Young (Division of Information Engineering and Telecommunications, Hallym University)
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Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research / v.28, no.4, 2007 , pp. 471-476 More about this Journal
Abstract
Various active microwave imaging techniques have been developed for cancer detection for past several decades. Both the microwave tomography and the UWB radar techniques, constituting functional microwave imaging systems, use the electrical property contrast between normal tissues and malignancies to detect the latter in an early development stage. Even though promising simulation results have been reported, the understanding of the functional microwave imaging diagnostics has been relied heavily on the complicated numerical results. We present a computationally efficient and physically instructive analytical electromagnetic wave channel models developed for functional microwave imaging system in order to detect especially the breast tumors as early as possible. The channel model covers the propagation factors that have been examined in the previous 2-D models, such as the radial spreading, path loss, partial reflection and transmission of the backscattered electromagnetic waves from the tumor cell. The effects of the system noise and the noise from the inhomogeneity of the tissue to the reconstruction algorithm are modeled as well. The characteristics of the reconstructed images of the tumor using the proposed model are compared with those from the confocal microwave imaging.
Keywords
microwave imaging; signal modeling; noise; breast cancer; tumor;
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