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Numerical assessment of multifrequency microwave radiometry for sensing malignant breast cancer tumors
Author(s) -
ElShenawee Magda
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
microwave and optical technology letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.304
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1098-2760
pISSN - 0895-2477
DOI - 10.1002/mop.10774
Subject(s) - microwave , radiometry , brightness , brightness temperature , breast cancer , breast tumor , microwave imaging , optics , materials science , physics , medicine , cancer , engineering , telecommunications
A numerical study of microwave radiometry for malignant breast cancer tumors is presented. The numerical results show that the brightness temperature of malignant tumors exhibits a resonant behavior versus the frequency. The brightness magnitude decreases with the tumor burial depth, however, the resonance frequencies depend only on the tumor's size and material and are independent of the burial depth. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 36: 394–398, 2003; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.10774