
This paper deals with breast and head phantoms fabricated from 3D-printed structures and liquid mixtures whose complex permittivities are close to that of the biological tissues within a large frequency band. The goal is to enable an easy and safe manufacturing of stable-in-time detailed anthropomorphic phantoms dedicated to the test of microwave imaging systems to assess the performances of the latter in realistic configurations before a possible clinical application to breast cancer imaging or brain stroke monitoring. The structure of the breast phantom has already been used by several laboratories to test their measurement systems in the framework of the COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) Action TD1301-MiMed. As for the tissue mimicking liquid mixtures, they are based upon Triton X-100 and salted water. It has been proven that such mixtures can dielectrically mimic the various breast tissues. It is shown herein that they can also accurately mimic most of the head tissues and that, given a binary fluid mixture model, the respective concentrations of the various constituents needed to mimic a particular tissue can be predetermined by means of a standard minimization method.
Medicine (General), microwave imaging; breast cancer detection; brain stroke monitoring; dielectric characterization; UWB breast and head phantoms, [SPI.ELEC] Engineering Sciences [physics]/Electromagnetism, breast cancer detection, dielectric characterization, brain stroke monitoring, Article, [SDV.IB.IMA] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Bioengineering/Imaging, R5-920, UWB breast and head phantoms, microwave imaging, [SPI.SIGNAL] Engineering Sciences [physics]/Signal and Image processing
Medicine (General), microwave imaging; breast cancer detection; brain stroke monitoring; dielectric characterization; UWB breast and head phantoms, [SPI.ELEC] Engineering Sciences [physics]/Electromagnetism, breast cancer detection, dielectric characterization, brain stroke monitoring, Article, [SDV.IB.IMA] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Bioengineering/Imaging, R5-920, UWB breast and head phantoms, microwave imaging, [SPI.SIGNAL] Engineering Sciences [physics]/Signal and Image processing
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