Phaseless Approach to Microwave Biomedical Imaging: System Requirements towards Clinical Applications

A preliminary study on the implementation of a microwave imaging system for biomedical applications is outlined in this work. A low-cost, portable and easy implementable measurement setup for dielectric characterization of biomedical scenario, specifically in the field of breast imaging, is discussed. It is combined with the use of a phaseless reconstruction strategy for the solution of the related non-linear inverse scattering problem.

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