title: An improved technique to predict the time-of-arrival of a tumor response in radar-based breast imaging.
abstract: Radar-based microwave imaging has been proposed as a complementary modality for early-stage breast cancer screening. This paper presents an algorithm that may be used to accurately predict the time-of-arrival (TOA) of a tumor response contained in sample data acquired from a small number of antennas in a realistic scenario. The TOA information may be used by many of the existing radar-based methods to detect and localize a tumor response. The robustness of the algorithm is demonstrated with data generated from realistic numerical breast models.
authors.affiliation: theDepartment of Electrical andComputer Engineering, Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada. djkurran@ucalgary.ca
authors.forename: Douglas J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Kurrant
authors.forename: Elise C
authors.initials: EC
authors.lastname: Fear
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D055088:Early Detection of Cancer; D006801:Humans; D008872:Microwaves; D008954:Models, Biological