@inproceedings{ac75bfd3b4494daab440f3c38d689145,
title = "Towards Study on Thermoacoustic Imaging Guided Focused Microwave Therapy for Breast Cancer Treatment",
abstract = "We present preliminary data for a novel platform that integrates focused microwave therapy (FMT) with thermoacoustic imaging (TAI) for mapping temperature, quantifying the heat zone, and guiding the delivery of focused heat. The longterm objectives of this study are to 1) Design and build an image-guided FMT system that is noninvasive, safe and effective for treating small or large locally aggressive solid breast tumors as a possible replacement or complement to invasive surgery; 2) Benchmark performance and optimize TAI-guided FMT platform using in numerical breast phantom and excised tissue. We present the overall system concept, numerical simulations and initial bench-top results related to the proposed platform.",
keywords = "ablation, breast cancer, focused microwave therapy, hyperthermia, thermoacoustic imaging",
author = "Srishti Saraswat and Jinpil Tak and Min Liang and Cheng Lyu and Witte, \{Russell S.\} and Hao Xin",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018 IEEE.; 2018 IEEE/MTT-S International Microwave Symposium, IMS 2018 ; Conference date: 10-06-2018 Through 15-06-2018",
year = "2018",
month = aug,
day = "17",
doi = "10.1109/MWSYM.2018.8439134",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9781538650677",
series = "IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "953--956",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE/MTT-S International Microwave Symposium, IMS 2018",
}