{"title":"UWB microwave imaging system with a novel calibration approach for breast cancer detection","authors":"Yazhou Wang, A. Fathy, M. Mahfouz","doi":"10.1109/BIOWIRELESS.2011.5724350","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A microwave imaging system prototype has been developed for early breast cancer detection. The system is based on impulse Ultra-Wideband (UWB) radar technology. A novel, practical calibration method has been applied in our system to remove the large received signals due to both skin backscattering and Tx/Rx antenna coupling, and to underline the reflection/scattering from object of interest. This calibration method is crucial to identify the malignant tissues in a low-contrast condition that the difference of dielectric properties between malignant tissues and healthy tissues is not more than 10%. The system has been used to detect the cylindrical targets from a breast model. With this novel calibration approach, our system has successfully detected and localized the targets with a diameter of 5mm in a low-contrast condition. Details of the experimental setup and experimental imaging results will be discussed in this paper.","PeriodicalId":430449,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Topical Conference on Biomedical Wireless Technologies, Networks, and Sensing Systems","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2011-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"17","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2011 IEEE Topical Conference on Biomedical Wireless Technologies, Networks, and Sensing Systems","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BIOWIRELESS.2011.5724350","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
A microwave imaging system prototype has been developed for early breast cancer detection. The system is based on impulse Ultra-Wideband (UWB) radar technology. A novel, practical calibration method has been applied in our system to remove the large received signals due to both skin backscattering and Tx/Rx antenna coupling, and to underline the reflection/scattering from object of interest. This calibration method is crucial to identify the malignant tissues in a low-contrast condition that the difference of dielectric properties between malignant tissues and healthy tissues is not more than 10%. The system has been used to detect the cylindrical targets from a breast model. With this novel calibration approach, our system has successfully detected and localized the targets with a diameter of 5mm in a low-contrast condition. Details of the experimental setup and experimental imaging results will be discussed in this paper.