Accelerating the Technological, Clinical and Commercialisation Progress in the Area of Medical Microwave Imaging

Journal Articles

Publications published within the COST Action MiMed, TD1301

1. Porter, E., La Gioia, A., Salahuddin, S., Decker, S., Shahzad, A., Elahi, M.A., O’Halloran, M. and Beyan, O., 2017. Minimum information for dielectric measurements of biological tissues (MINDER): A framework for repeatable and reusable data. International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer‐Aided Engineering.

2. Salahuddin, S., Porter, E., Krewer, F. and O’Halloran, M., 2017. Optimised analytical models of the dielectric properties of biological tissue. Medical Engineering & Physics, 43, pp.103-111.

3. Salahuddin, S., Porter, E., Meaney, P.M. and O’Halloran, M., 2017. Effect of logarithmic and linear frequency scales on parametric modelling of tissue dielectric data. Biomedical Physics & Engineering Express, 3(1), p.015020.

4. S. Salahuddin, M. O’Halloran, L. Farrugia, J. Bonello, P. S. Wismayer, C. V. Sammut and E. Porter, “Effects of Standard Coagulant Agents on the Dielectric Properties of Fresh Human Blood,” IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation, vol. 24, no. 5, pp. 3283-3289, 2017.

5. Moll, J., Kelly, T.N., Byrne, D., Sarafianou, M., Krozer, V. and Craddock, I.J., 2014. Microwave radar imaging of heterogeneous breast tissue integrating a priori information. Journal of Biomedical Imaging, 2014, p.17.

6. Vrba, D., Vrba, J., Rodrigues, D.B. and Stauffer, P., 2016. Numerical investigation of novel microwave applicators based on zero-order mode resonance for hyperthermia treatment of cancer. Journal of The Franklin Institute.

7. Joachimowicz, N., Conessa, C., Henriksson, T. and Duchêne, B., 2014. Breast phantoms for microwave imaging. IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, 13, pp.1333-1336.

8. Oliveira, B., Glavin, M., Jones, E., O’Halloran, M. and Conceição, R., 2014, July. Avoiding unnecessary breast biopsies: Clinically-informed 3D breast tumour models for microwave imaging applications. In Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (APSURSI), 2014 IEEE (pp. 1143-1144). IEEE.

9. Ruvio, G., Solimene, R., Cuccaro, A., Gaetano, D., Browne, J.E. and Ammann, M.J., 2014. Breast cancer detection using interferometric MUSIC: Experimental and numerical assessment. Medical physics, 41(10).

10. Rodrigues, D.B., Stauffer, P.R., Vrba, D. and Hurwitz, M.D., 2015. Focused ultrasound for treatment of bone tumours. International Journal of Hyperthermia, 31(3), pp.260-271.

11. Scapaticci, R., Kosmas, P. and Crocco, L., 2015. Wavelet-based regularization for robust microwave imaging in medical applications. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 62(4), pp.1195-1202.

12. Oliveira, B.L., O’Halloran, M., Conceição, R., Glavin, M. and Jones, E., 2016. Development of Clinically Informed 3-D Tumor Models for Microwave Imaging Applications. IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, 15, pp.520-523.

13. Stevanović, M.N., Crocco, L., Djordjević, A.R. and Nehorai, A., 2016. Higher order sparse microwave imaging of PEC scatterers. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 64(3), pp.988-997.

14. Akduman, I., Crocco, L., Litman, A. and Yapar, A., 2015. Progress in microwave imaging: from theoretical developments to cutting-edge applications. International Journal of Antennas and Propagation, 2015.

15. Koutsoupidou, M., Karanasiou, I.S., Kakoyiannis, C.G., Groumpas, E., Conessa, C., Joachimowicz, N. and Duchêne, B., 2017. Evaluation of a tumor detection microwave system with a realistic breast phantom. Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, 59(1), pp.6-10.

16. Cappiello, G., Mc Ginley, B., Elahi, M.A., Drizdal, T., Paulides, M.M., Glavin, M., O’Halloran, M. and Jones, E., 2016. Differential Evolution Optimization of the SAR Distribution for Head and Neck Hyperthermia. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering.

17. Ruvio, G., Cuccaro, A., Solimene, R., Brancaccio, A., Basile, B. and Ammann, M.J., 2016. Microwave bone imaging: a preliminary scanning system for proof-of-concept. Healthcare technology letters, 3(3), pp.218-221.

18. Chen, Y., Kosmas, P., Anwar, P.S. and Huang, L., 2015. A touch-communication framework for drug delivery based on a transient microbot system. IEEE transactions on nanobioscience, 14(4), pp.397-408.

19. O’loughlin, D., Krewer, F., Glavin, M., Jones, E. and O’halloran, M., 2017. Focal quality metrics for the objective evaluation of confocal microwave images. International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies, pp.1-8.

20. Rahimov, A., Litman, A. and Ferrand, G., 2017. MRI-based electric properties tomography with a quasi-Newton approach. Inverse Problems, 33(10), p.105004.

21. M.A. Elahi, M. Glavin, E. Jones and M. O’Halloran, “Adaptive artifact removal for selective multistatic microwave breast imaging signals”, Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, vol. 34, pp. 93-100, 2017.

22. Elahi, M.A., Curtis, C., Lavoie, B.R., Glavin, M., Jones, E., Fear, E. and O’Halloran, M., 2017. Performance of leading artifact removal algorithms assessed across microwave breast imaging prototype scan configurations. Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics.

23. Mina Bjelogrlic, Maxime Volery, Benjamin Fuchs, Jean-Philippe Thiran, Juan R. Mosig, and Michael Mattes., “Stratified Spherical Model for Microwave Imaging of the Brain: Analysis and Experimental Validation of Transmitted Power.”, Microwave and Optical Technology Letters.

24. E. Porter, A. La Gioia, A. Santorelli and M. O’Halloran, “Modelling of the Dielectric Properties of Biological Tissues within the Histology Region”, IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation, vol. 24, no. 5, pp. 3290-3301, 2017.

25. E. Porter and M. O’Halloran, “Investigation of Histology Region in Dielectric Measurements of Heterogeneous Tissues,” IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag., vol. 65, no. 10, 2017.

26. Shahzad, A., O’Halloran, M., Jones, E. and Glavin, M., 2016. A multistage selective weighting method for improved microwave breast tomography. Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, 54, pp.6-15.

27. McDermott, B.J., McGinley, B., Krukiewicz, K., Divilly, B., Jones, M., Biggs, M., O’Halloran, M. and Porter, E., 2017. Stable Tissue-Mimicking Materials and an Anatomically Realistic, Adjustable Head Phantom for Electrical Impedance Tomography. Biomedical Physics & Engineering Express.

28. Luca Vannucci, Lenka Rajsiglová, Dmitry Stakheev, Daniela Lehutova, Vladimir Havliek, Dominika Luptaková, Tomas Pluhacek, Pierpaolo Ceci, Elisabetta Falvo, Michal Babic, Uliana Kostiv, Daniel Horak, Jiri Krizan, Jan Vrba, Jan Vrba jr., David Vrba, Laura Farina, Vanni Lopresto, Giuseppe Ruvio, Pavol Makovicky, Peter Makovicky, Radislav Sedlacek. Gadolinium-based nanoparticles for targeting the tumor microenvironment. (invited lecture) Int J Mol Med, 40 (S1): S38-S38, 2017