@inproceedings{c559f6d42f834841ab2d3f117b43a4f1,
title = "Guidelines towards a wearable microwave tomography system",
abstract = "In this paper, a numerical study is conducted to provide guidelines towards designing a wearable microwave tomography (MWT) system for medical imaging. The main objective is to ease the process of imaging human organs as well as improve the overall image reconstruction of the utilized inversion algorithm. In comparison to conventional MWT systems currently available, a wearable system uses structural information about the object-of-interest (OI) with ease in its design. The information is used to relocate the antennas and the inversion algorithm image domain. In addition, a wearable system uses ultrasound gel as a coupling medium, which is an alternative to a liquid matching medium. As an example, the proposed guidelines are applied on the use of MWT for imaging human lower limbs. The initial results of a simulated wearable system show a better estimation of the relative complex permittivity of different tissues within a OI in comparison to a conventional MWT system.",
keywords = "Contrast source inversion, Finite-element method, Medical imaging, Microwave tomography, Wearable device",
author = "Mohanad Alkhodari and Amer Zakaria and Nasser Qaddoumi",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019 IEEE.; 2019 IEEE Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference, APMC 2019 ; Conference date: 10-12-2019 Through 13-12-2019",
year = "2019",
month = dec,
doi = "10.1109/APMC46564.2019.9038673",
language = "British English",
series = "Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference Proceedings, APMC",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "1423--1425",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference, APMC 2019",
address = "United States",
}