Microwave Breast Imaging by the Filtered ForwardBackward Time-Stepping Method

• Main Authors: Kismet, Hong Ping, Takenaka, Takashi, Moriyama, Toshifumi, Yamasaki, Takafumi
• Format: Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/31300/1/Microwave%20breast%20imaging%20by%20the%20filtered%20forward-backward%20time-stepping%20method%20-%20Copy.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/31300/
• Institution: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak

In this paper, an inverse scattering technique referred to as the filtered forward-backward time-stepping method is applied to microwave imaging for breast cancer detection. A two-dimensional numerical breast phantom (derived from MR images) with high contrast between fat and fibroglandular tis...