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

Working Group Meeting 5th Meeting for WG1 and WG2 – Davos, 11-12 April, 2016

Monday, 11th April

14:00 – Registration, welcome note from chair, vice-chair and local organiser

14:10 – Grant Holder presentation

14:30 – P. Meaney – Parameter estimation techniques for evaluating and improving microwave tomography algorithm characteristics

15:15 – F. Kienberger – Hardware trends for multi-port network analysis: fast and calibrated measurements

16:30 – L. Crocco – Towards a full exploitation of microwave imaging in medical applications: the path from qualitative imaging to quantitative tomography

Tuesday, 12th April
10:00 – R. Conceição, M. O’Halloran, J. Mohr – Presentation of book “An Introduction to Microwave Imaging for Breast Cancer Detection”, Springer book series in Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering

11:00 – L. Crocco – Presentation of book proposal with tentative title “Microwave Technologies for brain diseases diagnostics and monitoring” – Only talk was given, no slides presented.

11:50 – Fumie Costen, “Recent activities on time reversal algorithm in Manchester”, University of Manchester, United Kingdom

12:10 – Azadeh Kamali Tafreshi, Nevzat G. Gencer “Effects of vibration frequency in Harmonic Motion Microwave Doppler Imaging data profiles”, Middle East Technical University, Balgat Ankara, Turkey

14:00 – Matilde Pato “How Microwave Imaging can help ALS disease monitoring”, Instituto de Biofísica e Engenharia Biomédica, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

14:20 – Jochen Moll “Towards Thermal Differential Imaging for Ultra-wideband Microwave Breast Cancer Detection”, Goethe University of Frankfurt, Department of Physics, Germany

14:40 – Martin O’Halloran “Industry driven dielectric studies of biological tissue”, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland