First trials towards contrast enhanced microwave breast cancer detection by magnetic modulated nanoparticles
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Ley, S.; Helbig, M.; Sachs, J.; Frick, S.; Hilger, I.
- Source
- 2015 9th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP) Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2015 9th European Conference on. :1-4 Apr, 2015
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Computing and Processing
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Signal Processing and Analysis
Magnetic resonance imaging
Phantoms
Modulation
Radar imaging
Nanoparticles
Breast cancer
UWB
magnetic nanoparticles
magnetic modulation
M-sequence radar technology
breast cancer detection
tissue mimicking phantoms
- Language
- ISSN
- 2164-3342
This paper presents a contrast enhancing approach for Ultra-wideband breast imaging by means of magnetic modulated iron oxide nanoparticles. The investigations are motivated by the low dielectric contrast between malignant and normal glandular/fibroconnective tissues in the breast. In this contribution two different modulation approaches are investigated. Measurements were conducted using M-sequence UWB technology and oil-gelatin breast phantoms. The results show a detectability of magnetic nanoparticles accumulations in the range of 5 mg down to 0.5 mg depending on the magnetic field intensity and the phantom size.