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Preclinical Prototype Development of a Microwave Tomography System for Breast Cancer Detection

  • Son, Seong-Ho (Broadcasting & Telecommunications Convergence Research Laboratory, ETRI) ;
  • Simonov, Nikolai (Broadcasting & Telecommunications Convergence Research Laboratory, ETRI) ;
  • Kim, Hyuk-Je (Broadcasting & Telecommunications Convergence Research Laboratory, ETRI) ;
  • Lee, Jong-Moon (Broadcasting & Telecommunications Convergence Research Laboratory, ETRI) ;
  • Jeon, Soon-Ik (Broadcasting & Telecommunications Convergence Research Laboratory, ETRI)
  • Received : 2009.10.27
  • Accepted : 2010.08.23
  • Published : 2010.12.31
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Abstract

As a supplement to X-ray mammography, microwave imaging is a new and promising technique for breast cancer detection. Through solving the nonlinear inverse scattering problem, microwave tomography (MT) creates images from measured signals using antennas. In this paper, we describe a developed MT system and an iterative Gauss-Newton algorithm. At each iteration, this algorithm determines the updated values by solving the set of normal equations using Tikhonov regularization. Some examples of successful image reconstruction are presented.

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