Medical Imaging System Design using Microwave Antennas and Portable Platform

When discussing medical imaging systems, microwave imaging is considered one of the emerging techniques that provide fast, safe, cost effective and noninvasive medical imaging modality compared to other conventional imaging techniques such as x-ray, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and computed tomography imaging (CT). The imaging in microwave imaging system can be performed by mapping the interactions of microwave photons with the medium including signal reflection, attenuation and propagation. These factors are dependent on the water or blood content of the tissue. The maps of electromagnetic properties of the tissue generated with microwave imaging is used to generate medical images for different clinical applications such as leukemia, bone degradation, tumor and traumatic brain injury (TBI) detection. This paper proposes a medical imaging system that is able to produce three-dimensional images in a much safer and cheaper way compared to conventional imaging methods. The medical imaging system proposed is a work in progress and this paper is intended to outline the design and show the preliminary medical images obtained.