Microwave imaging for early breast cancer detection: Experimental testing of a low-cost portable system

In this paper we describe the experimental testing of our microwave imaging (MWI) system prototype for use in research towards early breast cancer detection. The main characteristics of the proposed MWI prototype are the low cost and the portability due to the use, for signals generation and acquisition, of low-cost yet high-precision off-the-shelf components (COTS) that replace a costly vector network analyzer. Good detections are reported for simple breast phantoms.

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