Experimental Microwave Breast Cancer Detection with Oil-on-Gelatin Phantom

Giuseppe Ruvio, Technological University Dublin
Raffaele Solimene, Seconda Università di Napoli
Antonio Cuccaro, Seconda Università di Napoli
Jacinta Browne, Technological University Dublin
Domenico Gaetano, Technological University Dublin
Max Ammann, Technological University Dublin

IEEE APS & URSI International Conference Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications, Torino, Italy, pp. 871-874.

Abstract

This paper presents a 2-D breast phantom which was realized with oil-in-gelatin materials for the evaluation of three different tumor detection methods operated in the microwave spectrum 1 – 3 GHz. A planar monopole antenna was used to scan the phantom in a multi-monostatic configuration across 36 angular locations. Results show a better performance of an Interferometric-MUSIC approach when compared to Non-coherent Migration and Wide Band MUSIC.