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Tomographic measurement of temperature change in phantoms of the human body by chirp radar-type microwave computed tomography

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The chirp radar-type microwave computed tomograph (CT) measures the temperature change in a human body noninvasively. The paper examines its feasibility. A chirp pulse signal between 1 and 2 GHz is radiated from the transmitting antenna to the phantom. The transmitted waves are detected by the receiving antenna, which is place on the opposite side of the object, and the beat signal between the incident wave and the transmitted wave is produced by the mixer. By spectral analysis of the beat signal, only those signals transmitted on the straight line between the transmitting antenna and the receiving antenna are discriminated from multipath signals. The microwave tomogram can therefore be reconstructed easily using the conventional algorithms for an X-ray CT image. The microwave CT can use the chirp signal to remove the influence of multipath signals caused by diffraction and reflection. The imaging of dielectric materials with complicated structures is thus possible. The experimental results using phantoms show that the spatial resolution of this microwave CT is about 10 mm and that a two-dimensional distribution of temperature change can be measured.

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  1. Department of Information Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Niigata University, Ikarashi 2-nocho, 8050, 950-21, Nigata-shi, Japan

    M. Miyakawa

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Miyakawa, M. Tomographic measurement of temperature change in phantoms of the human body by chirp radar-type microwave computed tomography. Med. Biol. Eng. Comput. 31 (Suppl 1), S31–S36 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02446647

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