Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA.
IEEE Rev Biomed Eng. 2011;4:103-18. doi: 10.1109/RBME.2011.2169780.
Breast cancer is anticipated to be responsible for almost 40,000 deaths in the USA in 2011. The current clinical detection techniques suffer from limitations which motivated researchers to investigate alternative modalities for the early detection of breast cancer. This paper focuses on reviewing the main electromagnetic techniques for breast cancer detection. More specifically, this work reviews the cutting edge research in microwave imaging, electrical impedance tomography, diffuse optical tomography, microwave radiometry, biomagnetic detection, biopotential detection, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The goal of this paper is to provide biomedical researchers with an in-depth review that includes all main electromagnetic techniques in the literature and the latest progress in each of these techniques.
预计 2011 年美国将有近 4 万人死于乳腺癌。目前的临床检测技术存在局限性，这促使研究人员探索乳腺癌早期检测的替代方法。本文重点回顾了用于乳腺癌检测的主要电磁技术。更具体地说，这项工作回顾了微波成像、电阻抗断层成像、漫射光学断层成像、微波辐射计、生物磁探测、生物电势探测和磁共振成像（MRI）等方面的最新研究进展。本文的目的是为生物医学研究人员提供深入的综述，其中包括文献中所有主要的电磁技术以及这些技术中的最新进展。
