An Introduction to Microwave Imaging for Breast Cancer Detection

1 Introduction. 2 Anatomy and Dielectric Properties of the Breast and Breast Cancer.
2.1 Anatomy of the Breast. 2.2 Breast Cancer. 2.3 More Recent Dielectric Studies. 3 Microwave Tomography.
3.1 Introduction. 3.2 Problem Formulation. 3.3 Linear Tomography. 3.4 Non-Linear Microwave Tomography. 4 Confocal Microwave Imaging.
4.1 Introduction. 4.2 Artefact Removal Algorithms. 4.3 Data Independent Beamformers. 4.4 Adaptive Beamforming. 4.5 Path Dielectric Estimation Techniques. 5 Tumour Classification.
5.1 Tumour Numerical Morphological Models. 5.2 Classification of Early-Stage Breast Cancer in Numerical Simulations. 5.3 Classification Based on Radar Target Signature Classification of Tumours. 5.4 Classification of Early-Stage Breast Cancer in 3D Experimental Results. 6 Experimental Systems.
6.1 Operational systems. 6.2 Tomographic Systems. 6.3 Radar based ultra-wideband systems.