KB04: Non-ionizing Electromagnetic Medical Imaging (2)

Saturday, August 23  09:40-10:40,  Room #10

Session Chairs: Jie Tian, James Lin

This session is devoted to non-ionizing electromagnetic (and hybrid-electromagnetic) systems for breast imaging, tissue characterization, and the detection/identification of tumors. Much progress has been made on the development of such systems ranging from very low frequencies all the way up to optical frequencies. Examples include electrical impedance tomography, microwave imaging, near-infrared tomography, and THz imaging. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to, tomographic and other image construction algorithms and experimental results from laboratory and clinical imaging systems. Breast imaging is the principal topic but other applications of similar principle are also acceptable.

9:40  KB04.1   SVM-BASED CLASSIFICATION OF BREAST TUMOUR PHANTOMS USING A UWB RADAR PROTOTYPE SYSTEM

R. C. Conceicao1, H. Medeiros1,2, M. O'Halloran3, D. Rodriguez-Herrera4, D. Flores-Tapia4, S. Pistorius4

1Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciencias, Instituto de Biofisica e Engenharia Biomedica, Lisbon, Portugal
2Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Monte de Caparica, Portugal
3Electrical & Electronic Engineering, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland
4Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada


10:00  KB04.2   MICROWAVE IMAGING OF BREAST CANCER TUMOR INSIDE VOXEL-BASED BREAST PHANTOM USING CONFORMAL ANTENNAS

I. Ünal1, B. Türetken1, Y. Çotur2

1Millimeter Wave and Terahertz Technologies Laboratories, TÜBITAK, Marmara Research Center, Material Institute, Gebze, Kocaeli, Turkey
2Robotics Laboratory, Bogaziçi University, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Kandilli, Istanbul, Turkey


10:20  KB04.3   ESTIMATING REFLECTIVITY BY NON-STATIONARY DECONVOLUTION OF ULTRA-WIDE BAND RADAR DATA: APPLICATION TO MICROWAVE BREAST IMAGING

K. Y. Liu, E. C. Fear, M. Potter

Dept. Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada