Microwave Breast Imaging System Prototype with Integrated Numerical Characterization

The increasing number of experimental microwave breast imaging systems and the need to properly model them have motivated our development of an integrated numerical characterization technique. We use Ansoft HFSS and a formalism we developed previously to numerically characterize an S-parameter- base...

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Published in:International journal of biomedical imaging 2012-01, Vol.2012 (2012), p.1-18
Main Authors: Haynes, Mark, Stang, John, Moghaddam, Mahta
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:The increasing number of experimental microwave breast imaging systems and the need to properly model them have motivated our development of an integrated numerical characterization technique. We use Ansoft HFSS and a formalism we developed previously to numerically characterize an S-parameter- based breast imaging system and link it to an inverse scattering algorithm. We show successful reconstructions of simple test objects using synthetic and experimental data. We demonstrate the sensitivity of image reconstructions to knowledge of the background dielectric properties and show the limits of the current model.
ISSN:1687-4188
1687-4196
DOI:10.1155/2012/706365