Collaborative Research: Compact Microwave Imaging System Based on Antenna Array of Dielectric Resonators for Breast Cancer Detection
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| Abstract | The University of Arkansas is collaborating with universities all over the world to devise a new method of breast cancer detection using microwave technology and advanced imaging. The possibility to use gold nanoparticles as an enhancement agent of the contrast between the tumor and the healthy tissue is the motivation behind sending a student to the University of Technology of Troyes in France for three months. To explore this idea, the DDSCAT code was investigated for its capabilities and analyzed for its accuracy in scattering calculations. The results obtained showed the DDSCAT to be a flexible code, which offers potential to further research of the breast cancer detection. Despite the encouraging results, more extensive analysis is needed to determine exact precision, resolution, and CPU times for targets with increasing complexity. The student was excited to work on a multi-disciplinary project and be exposed to new trends in technology as well as the surrounding culture. As a result of the research experience, she is motivated to pursue a graduate career in electrical engineering. |
| Contributor | Mourad Ouzzani
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| Bio | Lauren Megee is currently a senior at the University of Arkansas. She is majoring in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Mathematics. She is a member of the Honors College and an officer of Eta Kappa Nu electrical engineering honor society. She is working under Dr. El-Shenawee for her honors thesis in the area of breast cancer tumor detection.
Magda El-Shenawee worked as a Research Associate in the Center for Electro-Optics at the University of Nebraska where she focused on the problem of enhanced backscatter phenomena. In 1994, she worked as a Research Associate at the National Research Center, Cairo, Egypt, and in 1997, she worked as Visiting Scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 1999, she joined the MURI team (Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative) at Northeastern University, Boston. Currently, Dr. El-Shenawee is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Her research areas are rough surface scattering, computational electromagnetics, subsurface sensing of buried objects, breast cancer modeling, numerical methods, and microstrip circuits. Dr. El-Shenawee is a member of Eta Kappa Nu electrical engineering honor society. Demetrio Macias received the B.S and M.S in Electrical Engineering from the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1993 and 1998, respectively. In 2003 he received the PhD. degree in Physical Optics from the Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education of Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico. In the same year, he joined the Laboratory of nanotechnology and Optical Instrumentation (LNIO) at the University of Technology of Troyes in France, where at present he is Assistant Professor. His current research interests include the modeling and solution of direct and inverse problems in Near-Field Optics and plasmonics. |
| Sponsored By | NSF ECS-0524042 |
| Cite this work | Researchers should cite this work as follows: Lauren Megee, Demetrio Macia and Magda El-Shenawee, "Collaborative Research: Compact Microwave Imaging System Based on Antenna Array of Dielectric Resonators for Breast Cancer Detection", Trip report presented at the NSF IREE 2008 Grantees Conference, May 2008, Washington, D.C. |
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