An Active and Low-cost Microwave Imaging System for Detection of Breast Cancer Using Back Scattered Signal

Anupma Gupta; Paras Chawla; Ankush Kansal; Kulbir Singh

doi:10.2174/1573405617666210129114536

An Active and Low-cost Microwave Imaging System for Detection of Breast Cancer Using Back Scattered Signal

Curr Med Imaging. 2022;18(5):460-475. doi: 10.2174/1573405617666210129114536.

Authors

Anupma Gupta¹, Paras Chawla², Ankush Kansal¹, Kulbir Singh¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala, India.
² Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Chandigarh University, Mohali, India.

PMID: 33511930
DOI: 10.2174/1573405617666210129114536

Abstract

A defected ground antenna with dielectric reflector is designed and investigated for breast tumour diagnosis. Ultra-wide band resonance (3.1 to 10.6 GHz) is achieved by etching two slots and adding a narrow vertical strip in a patch antenna. A high dielectric constant substrate is added below the antenna, which shows remarkable effect on performance. Antenna performance is verified experimentally on an artificially fabricated breast tissue and tumour. Malignant tissue has different dielectric properties than the normal tissue which causes deviation in the scattered antenna power. Average value of backscattered signal variation and ground penetrating radar (GPR) algorithm is used to localize the tumour of radius 4mm in breast tissue.

Keywords: GPR algorithm; Microwave imaging; backscattered signal; breast tumour detection; dielectric reflector; ultra-wideband.

MeSH terms

Algorithms
Breast Neoplasms* / diagnostic imaging
Diagnostic Imaging / methods
Female
Humans
Microwave Imaging*
Microwaves