Recent Advances in Microwave Imaging for Breast Cancer Detection

Figure 5

Comparison of malignant tissues and normal breast tissues dielectric properties of previous studies and from the Wisconsin University and Calgary University research team. (a) Malignant tissues properties; (b) normal breast tissues properties. Lines: median dielectric properties of the cancer samples from Wisconsin University and Calgary University research team (dash-dotline: group 1, 0–30% adipose, dashed line: group 2, 31–84% adipose, solid line: group 3, 85–100% adipose). Symbols: malignant breast tissue dielectric properties data published previously (°, Chaudhary et al. [11]; , Surowiec et al. [12]; , Joines et al. [13]). Vertical arrows: range of data reported by Campbell and Land [14] at 3.2 GHz for malignant tissues [10, 15]. © Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine. Reproduced by permission of IOP Publishing. All rights reserved.

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