ArticleJournal of medical imaging (Bellingham, Wash.)2018
Portable impulse-radar detector for breast cancer: a pilot study.
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- Review and Analysis of Tumour Detection and Image Quality Analysis in Experimental Breast Microwave Sensing.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Microwave Imaging for Early Breast Cancer Detection: Current State, Challenges, and Future Directions.Journal of imaging · 2022Review
- Feasibility of Portable Microwave Imaging Device for Breast Cancer Detection.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- An Optimization-Based Approach to Radar Image Reconstruction in Breast Microwave Sensing.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Assessing Patient-Specific Microwave Breast Imaging in Clinical Case Studies.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Microwave Breast Imaging Using Rotational Bistatic Impulse Radar for the Detection of Breast Cancer: Protocol for a Prospective Diagnostic Study.JMIR research protocols · 2020Article
- The Application of an Iterative Structure to the Delay-and-Sum and the Delay-Multiply-and-Sum Beamformers in Breast Microwave Imaging.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Multi-stage feature selection (MSFS) algorithm for UWB-based early breast cancer size prediction.PloS one · 2020Article
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Abstract
Microwave breast imaging is a painless and nonradiation method. This pilot study aimed to evaluate the detective capability and feasibility of a prototype of a portable breast cancer detector using a radar-based imaging system. Five patients with histologically confirmed breast cancers with a minimum diameter of 1 cm were enrolled in this study. The antenna array dome of the device was placed on the breast of the patient in a supine position for 15 min per single examination. The primary endpoint was a detection rate of breast cancers. The secondary endpoints were positional accuracy and adverse event. All five targeted breast tumors were detected and were visualized at the sites confirmed by other diagnostic modalities. Among five tumors, one was not detected via mammography because of heterogeneously dense breast and another was a microinvasive carcinoma of invasive tumor size 0.5 mm. No study-related adverse events occurred. The prototype of a portable breast cancer detector has sufficient detective capability, is safe for clinical use, and might detect an early stage breast cancer, such as noninvasive carcinoma. Future developments should focus on further decreasing the size of the machine and shortening inspection time.
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