Recent Advances in Microwave Imaging for Breast Cancer Detection

Breast cancer is a disease that occurs most often in female cancer patients. Early detection can significantly reduce the mortality rate. Microwave breast imaging, which is noninvasive and harmless to human, offers a promising alternative method to mammography. This paper presents a review of recent...

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Main Authors: Sollip Kwon, Seungjun Lee
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2016-01-01
Series:International Journal of Biomedical Imaging
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/5054912
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Summary:Breast cancer is a disease that occurs most often in female cancer patients. Early detection can significantly reduce the mortality rate. Microwave breast imaging, which is noninvasive and harmless to human, offers a promising alternative method to mammography. This paper presents a review of recent advances in microwave imaging for breast cancer detection. We conclude by introducing new research on a microwave imaging system with time-domain measurement that achieves short measurement time and low system cost. In the time-domain measurement system, scan time would take less than 1 sec, and it does not require very expensive equipment such as VNA.
ISSN:1687-4188
1687-4196