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Breast cancer is a throbbing disease that no longer needs an introduction. This is especially true among women due to their unique breast structure that naturally has more breast tissues compared to that of man’s. It is been forecasted that in 2015, a minimum of 60290 new cases of breast cancer will be reported. The goal of this study is to analytically evaluate the changes in the induced Eddy current densities as a function of di-electrical properties of the breast tissue with respect to tumor positioning as well as its size. This is achieved by running numerical simulations on the proposed mechanism of magnetic induction to detect tumors among healthy breast tissue via a 2D breast model configuration. The analytical results presented in this article, proved that the multi frequency magnetic induction principle is viable in detecting the breast lesions as small as 0.2 cm non-invasively through the distributions of the induced Eddy current density. While important pattern of the induced current were reflected when the tumors are located at the far ends of the breast diameter. The minimum results computational time with the proposed system is 10 s.
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The authors are highly indebted to the Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UNIMAP) for their kind co-operation and encouragement which greatly assisted in the research work. This project is funded by the research acculturation grant scheme (RAGS 9018-00044) from the Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia.
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Balasena, G. et al. (2017). Study of Eddy Current Density Distribution in a Contactless Breast Cancer Detection Mechanism Using Magnetic Induction Spectroscopy. In: Ibrahim, H., Iqbal, S., Teoh, S., Mustaffa, M. (eds) 9th International Conference on Robotic, Vision, Signal Processing and Power Applications. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 398. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1721-6_10
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