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US 9,167,985 B2Granted
Microwave tomography systems and methods
AssigneeUniversity of Manitoba
InventorsJoe Lovetri, Puyan Mojabi
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Abstract
Methods and/or systems are disclosed herein for use in imaging an object with microwave tomography using a plurality of different boundary conditions.
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A method of imaging an object using microwave tomography, wherein the method comprises:
- providing one or more antennas positioned relative to an object;
- providing boundary condition apparatus comprising an enclosure and configured to change one or more of the orientation, shape, and volume of the enclosure to present a plurality of different boundary conditions relative to the one or more antennas;
- delivering electromagnetic energy using at least one of the one or more antennas to irradiate the object resulting in scattered electromagnetic energy for each of the plurality of different boundary conditions presented by the boundary condition apparatus;
- sampling the scattered electromagnetic energy using at least one of the one or more antennas for each of the plurality of different boundary conditions;
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- reconstructing an image of the object based on the sampled scattered electromagnetic energy.
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A system for use in imaging an object comprising:
- one or more antennas positionable relative to an object to be imaged;
- boundary condition apparatus comprising an enclosure and configured to change one or more of the orientation, shape, and volume of the enclosure to present a plurality of different boundary conditions relative to the one or more antennas;
- wherein the one or more antennas are configured to deliver electromagnetic energy to irradiate an object to be imaged resulting in scattered electromagnetic energy for each of the plurality of different boundary conditions, and wherein the one or more antennas are further configured to sample the scattered electromagnetic energy for each of the plurality of different boundary conditions;
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- processing apparatus configured to reconstruct an image of an object based on the sampled scattered electromagnetic energy.
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A method of imaging an object using microwave tomography, wherein the method comprises:
- providing one or more antennas positioned relative to an object to be imaged, wherein each of the one or more antennas is in a fixed position relative to the object;
- providing an enclosure around the object and changing one or more of the orientation, shape, and volume of the enclosure to present a plurality of different boundary conditions relative to the object being imaged and the one or more antennas;
- delivering electromagnetic energy using at least one of the one or more antennas to irradiate the object resulting in scattered electromagnetic energy for each of the plurality of different boundary conditions;
- sampling the scattered electromagnetic energy using at least one of the one or more antennas;
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- reconstructing an image of the object based on the sampled scattered electromagnetic energy.
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