Study of Microwave Tomography Measurement Setup Configurations for Breast Cancer Detection Based on Breast Compression

Autor: Alvaro Diaz-Bolado, Paul-Andre Barriere, Jean-Jacques Laurin
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: International Journal of Antennas and Propagation, Vol 2013 (2013)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1687-5869
1687-5877
DOI: 10.1155/2013/701378
Popis: Microwave tomography (MT) measurement setups for different configurations based on breast compression are compared to classical circular measurement setups. Configurations based on compression allow measuring the evanescent component of the scattered field and lead to a compact measurement setup that allows direct image comparison with a standard mammography system. The different configurations are compared based on the singular value decomposition (SVD) of the radiation operator for a 2D TM case. This analysis allows determining under which conditions the image quality obtained from the reconstructions can be enhanced. These findings are confirmed by a series of reconstructions of breast phantoms based on synthetic data obtained at a single frequency of operation.
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