Evaluation of a Medical Microwave Imaging Device for Breast Diagnosis - First Volunteer Study

This paper presents the first volunteer study with three healthy female volunteers using our breast radar-based microwave imaging prototype. We compare the differences in image quality when various values of complex permittivity are used for image reconstruction. We observed a more focused image was obtained when considering higher relative permittivity in the image reconstruction for the volunteer with lower age and lower Body Mass Index (BMI) when compared to older volunteers with higher BMI.