Abstract:
Provided is a method of sensing a radio wave in diagnostic imaging of breast cancer, including arranging a plurality of transmitting and receiving antennas along a periphery of a breast, transmitting a radio wave signal from at least one first antenna among the plurality of transmitting and receiving antennas, receiving a scattered wave signal for the radio wave signal from the remaining antennas, other than the first antenna, among the plurality of transmitting and receiving antennas, and rotating the plurality of transmitting and receiving antennas by a predetermined angle.
Abstract:
Disclosed is an apparatus and a method for efficiently controlling a temperature, which are capable of minimizing a temperature deviation and decreasing a temperature control time by simultaneously controlling temperatures of matching material used in a microwave imaging system in a main water tank and an auxiliary water tank, and preventing an amplitude and phase information of the microwaves obtained by the microwave imaging system from deteriorating over a lapse of time.
Abstract:
An apparatus and method of controlling a temperature of a matching material used in an apparatus for generating a tomographic image is disclosed. The method includes measuring a temperature of a matching material in which an object is immersed in an apparatus for measuring a shape of an object, setting a set temperature at which an amplitude and a phase of an electromagnetic wave that passes through the matching material are maintained, based on the measured temperature of the matching material, and controlling the temperature of the matching material to be higher than the set temperature.
Abstract:
An exemplary embodiment of the present invention discloses a microwave signal processing method and apparatus which precisely focus a microwave onto a specific part of a biological tissue and rapidly images a temperature distribution in the biological tissue generated thereby.
Abstract:
Provided is an apparatus and method for generating a three-dimensional (3D) shape of an object immersed in a liquid, in which the method may include receiving an image captured by photographing a section contour of the object immersed in a matching solution, generating a 3D shape of the object using the image, wherein the section contour may be formed according to a line laser emitted toward a surface of the object.
Abstract:
Provided is an apparatus and method for calibrating acquired scattering data in a three-dimensional (3D) microwave imaging system. A scattering data calibrating method may include acquiring microwave scattering data for each height of a tank containing a target using a microwave transceiving sensor; and calibrating the microwave scattering data based on a variation between a plurality of sets of microwave scattering data. A height of the tank at which the microwave scattering data is to be acquired may be determined based on a height of the microwave transceiving sensor is located in the tank.
Abstract:
Disclosed is an apparatus for breast cancer detection using a microwave, which decomposes a microwave signal measured on the circumference of a breast for each of a plurality of frequency components and detects a breast cancer based on the microwave signals decomposed for each of the plurality of frequency components to increase accuracy of diagnosis of the breast cancer.
Abstract:
Provided is an apparatus for reconstructing an image using a microwave. The apparatus includes: a microwave measurement unit configured to obtain a microwave measurement value for a microwave measurement object; and an image reconstruction unit configured to perform an image reconstruction by using the microwave measurement value and shape boundary information of the object.
Abstract:
According to the exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a microwave tomography apparatus is an apparatus which measures microwave tomograph of a subject which is inserted into a medium container including: a plurality of antennas which is located in the medium container and transmits and receives an electromagnetic wave; a plurality of transceivers which, when a radio wave signal transmitted from one of the plurality of antennas is simultaneously received by the remaining antennas of the plurality of antennas, measures intensity and phase information of the radio wave signal received from the remaining antennas; and a controller which generates an image using the values measured by the plurality of transceivers.
Abstract:
An apparatus and method for measuring a three-dimensional (3D) shape of an object using a liquid is provided, the method including generating an image by photographing an object immersed in a liquid, extracting a section contour indicating a boundary between the object and a surface of the liquid from the image, and measuring a 3D shape of the object using the extracted section contour.