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Abstract
A microwave imaging (MI) device working at 3 GHz has been used to record temperature images of early breast tumours. 25 patients were investigated prior to surgery. For every patient, the excised tissue was examined histologically. 22 of these patients were found to have only benign lesions using both MI and histology. Histology and MI found a malignant tumour for 3 patients. In all the 25 selected patients we were unable to determine the nature of the tumours by clinical examination, X-ray mammography and cytology. The results of the microwave imaging obtained in this study are therefore encouraging in the detection of cancer
Notes
These studies were performed at the Oscar Lambret Center, Lille, France, and supported by grants from the Ligue contre Ie Cancer and the Oscar Lambret Center research programme.