Model-based microwave image reconstruction: Simulations and experiments

Medical Physics

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 3231-3241

  Ciocan, Razvan ^a   Jiang, Huabei ^a  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer detection; Finite element method; Image reconstruction; Microwave imaging

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRIC FIELDS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; IMAGING SYSTEMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MICROWAVES;

BREAST CANCER DETECTION; ELECTRIC FIELD DISTRIBUTIONS; MICROWAVE IMAGING; MICROWAVE IMAGING SYSTEMS; NEWTON ITERATIVE METHODS; RADIATION BOUNDARY CONDITION; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; TIKHONOV REGULARIZATION;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREAST; COMPUTER; DIELECTRIC CONSTANT; ELECTRIC FIELD; EVALUATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROWAVE RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 11244304505     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1812871     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. J. E. Joy, E. E. Penhoet, and D. B. Pettiti, Saving Women's Lives: Strategies for Improving Breast Cancer Detection and Diagnosis (National Academy Press, Washington, DC, 2004).
2. W. T. Joines, Y. Z. Dhenxing, and R. L. Jirtle, "The measured electrical properties of normal and malignant human tissues from 50 to 900 MHz," Med. Phys. 21, 547-550 (1994).
3. S. C. Hagness, A. Taflove, and J. E. Bridges, "Two-dimensional FDTD analysis of a pulsed microwave confocal system for cancer detection: Fixed-focus and antenna-array sensors," IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng. 45, 1470-1479 (1998).
4. J.-C. Bolomey, "Recent European developments in active microwave imaging for industrial, scientific, and medical applications," IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory Tech. 37, 2109-2112 (1989).
5. L. Larsen and J. Jacobi, "Microwave scattering parameter imagery of an isolated canine kidney," Med. Phys. 6, 399-403 (1979).
6. L. Jofre, M. S. Hawley, A. Broquetas, E. de los Reyes, M. Ferrando, and A. R. Elias-Fuste, "Medical imaging with a microwave tomographic scanner," IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng. 37, 303-312 (1990).
7. th IEEE Instrum. Meas. Technol. Conf. 3, 1591-1596 (1999).
8. A. Franchois and C. Pichot, "Microwave imaging-complex permittivity reconstruction with a Levenberg-Marquardt method," IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag. 45, 203-215 (1997).
9. A. Franchois, A. Joisel, C. Pichot, and J.-C. Bolomey, "Quantitative microwave imaging with a 2.45-GHz planar microwave camera," IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging 4, 550-561 (1998).
10. N. Joachimowicz, C. Pichot, and J. P. Hugonin, "Inverse scattering: An iterative numerical method for electromagnetic imaging," IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag. 39, 1742-1753 (1991).
11. N. Joachimowicz, J. J. Mallorqui, J. C. Bolomey, and A. Broquets, "Convergence and stability assessment of Newton-Kantorovich reconstruction algorithms for microwave tomography," IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging 17, 562-570 (1998).
12. P. M. Meaney, K. D. Paulsen, A. Hartov, and R. K. Crane, "An active microwave imaging system for reconstruction of 2D electrical property distributions," IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng. 42, 1017-1026 (1995).
13. P. M. Meaney, N. K. Yagnamurthy, and K. D. Paulsen, "Pre-scaled two-parameter Gauss-Newton image reconstruction to reduce property recovery imbalance," Phys. Med. Biol. 47, 1101-1119 (2002).
14. I. T. Rekanos, S. M. Panas, and T. D. Tsiboukis, "Microwave imaging using the finite-element method and a sensitivity analysis approach," IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging 18, 1108-1114 (1999).
15. A. E. Bulyshev, S. Y. Semenov, A. E. Souvorov, R. H. Svenson, A. G. Nazarov, Y. E. Sizov, and G. P. Tatsis, "Computational modeling of three-dimensional microwave tomography of breast cancer," IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng. 48, 1053-1056 (2001).
16. P. M. van den Berg and R. E. Kleinman, "A contrast source inversion method," Inverse Probl. 13, 1607-1620 (1997).
17. Z. Q. Zhang and Q. H. Liu, "Three-dimensional nonlinear image reconstruction for microwave biomedical imaging," IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng. 51, 544-548 (2004).
18. P. M. Meaney, K. D. Paulsen, J. T. Chang, M. W. Fanning, and A. Hartov, "Nonactive antenna compensation for fixed-array microwave imaging. II. Imaging results," IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging 18, 508-518 (1999).
19. P. M. Meaney, M. F. Fanning, D. Li, S. P. Poplack, and K. D. Paulsen, "A clinical prototype for active microwave imaging of the breast," IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory Tech. 48, 1841-1853 (2000).
20. A. Bayliss and E. Turkel, "Radiation boundary conditions for wave-like equations," Commun. Pure Appl. Math. 33, 707-725 (1980).
21. A. F. Peterson, S. L. Ray, and R. Mittra, Computational Methods for Electromagnetics (IEEE Press, NY, 1998).
22. A. F. Peterson and S. V. Castillo, "A frequency-domain differential equation formulation for electromagnetic scattering from inhomogeneous cylinders," IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag. 37, 601-607 (1989).
23. P. M. Meaney, K. D. Paulsen, and T. P. Ryan, "Two-dimensional hybrid element image reconstruction for TM illumination," IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag. 43, 239-247 (1995).
24. H. Jiang, D. Keith, and U. Osterberg, "Optical image reconstruction using frequency domain data: Simulation and experiments," J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 13, 253-266 (1996).
25. M. Hanke, Conjugate Gradient Type Methods for Ill-Posed Problems (Longman Scientific and Technical, Essex, England, 1995).
26. P. M. Meaney, K. D. Paulsen, and J. T. Chang, "Near-field microwave imaging of biologically-based materials using a monopole transceiver system," IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory Tech. 46, 31-45 (1998).
27. M. I. Skolnik, Introduction to Radar Systems (McGraw-Hill, NY, 1980).
28. M. Chaplin, "Water structure and behavior," http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/water/microwave.html@bc
29. R. Ciocan and H. Jiang (unpublished).
30. D. Li, P. M. Meaney, and K. D. Paulsen, "Conformal microwave imaging for breast cancer detection," IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory Tech. 51, 1179-1186 (2003).