Microwave radiation and the brain: Mechanisms, current status, and future prospects

S Mumtaz, JN Rana, EH Choi, I Han - International journal of molecular …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Modern humanity wades daily through various radiations, resulting in frequent exposure and
causing potentially important biological effects. Among them, the brain is the organ most …

Open-ended coaxial probe technique for dielectric measurement of biological tissues: Challenges and common practices

A La Gioia, E Porter, I Merunka, A Shahzad… - Diagnostics, 2018 - mdpi.com
Electromagnetic (EM) medical technologies are rapidly expanding worldwide for both
diagnostics and therapeutics. As these technologies are low-cost and minimally invasive …

Microwave-based stroke diagnosis making global prehospital thrombolytic treatment possible

M Persson, A Fhager, HD Trefná, Y Yu… - IEEE Transactions …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Here, we present two different brain diagnostic devices based on microwave technology and
the associated two first proof-of-principle measurements that show that the systems can …

A prototype microwave system for 3D brain stroke imaging

JA Tobon Vasquez, R Scapaticci, G Turvani, G Bellizzi… - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
This work focuses on brain stroke imaging via microwave technology. In particular, the open
issue of monitoring patients after stroke onset is addressed here in order to provide …

Design and numerical characterization of a low-complexity microwave device for brain stroke monitoring

R Scapaticci, J Tobon, G Bellizzi… - … on Antennas and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents the design of a novel low-complexity microwave imaging system for
monitoring brain stroke. In particular, the design is concerned with the determination of the …

UWB bowtie antenna for medical microwave imaging applications

O Fiser, V Hruby, J Vrba, T Drizdal… - IEEE transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work presents a design and experimental validation of a compact ultrawideband (UWB)
bowtie antenna and balanced-to-unbalanced (balun) circuit for medical microwave imaging …

Assessing a microwave imaging system for brain stroke monitoring via high fidelity numerical modelling

DO Rodriguez-Duarte, JAT Vasquez… - IEEE Journal of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work presents the outcomes of a numerical analysis based on a 3-D high fidelity model
of a realistic microwave imaging system for the clinical follow-up of brain stroke. The …

Microwave diagnostics ahead: Saving time and the lives of trauma and stroke patients

A Fhager, S Candefjord, M Elam… - IEEE Microwave …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Microwave technology has the potential to revolutionize how, when, and what care can be
delivered to patients with acute, life-threatening medical conditions. The prospects are that …

Microwave tomography system for methodical testing of human brain stroke detection approaches

I Merunka, A Massa, D Vrba, O Fiser… - … Journal of Antennas …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In this work, a prototype of a laboratory microwave imaging system suitable to methodically
test the ability to image, detect, and classify human brain strokes using microwave …

Brain Stroke Microwave Imaging by Means of a Newton-Conjugate-Gradient Method in Banach Spaces

I Bisio, C Estatico, A Fedeli, F Lavagetto… - IEEE Transactions …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A conjugate-gradient-based regularization technique in L p Banach spaces, in conjunction
with an inexact-Newton solving scheme, is presented in this paper. The proposed method is …