A Multistage Selective Weighting Method for Improved Microwave Breast Tomography

Microwave tomography has shown potential to successfully reconstruct the dielectric properties of the human breast, thereby providing an alternative to other imaging modalities used in breast imaging applications. Considering the costly forward solution and complex iterative algorithms, computational complexity becomes a major bottleneck in practical applications of microwave tomography. In addition, the natural tendency of microwave inversion algorithms to reward high contrast breast tissue boundaries, such as the skin-adipose interface, usually leads to a very slow reconstruction of the internal tissue structure of human breast.

Source: Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics - August 22, 2016 Category: Radiology Authors: Atif Shahzad, Martin O ’Halloran, Edward Jones, Martin Glavin Source Type: research