3D Image to view affected Tissue

Microwaves give a new resolution for cancer.Chalmers University developed a new technique to detect  of cancer, through 3D images and destroy the affected tissue  with the help of microwaves by heat, which could play a pioneering role in the fight against this disease. The developers of these techniques, led by Professor of Bio-medical Electromagnetics, Andreas Fhager believe that could save many more lives than it currently does, as this technology is more effective, less invasive and simpler than all the alternatives currently available.
 

By Maricar Garcia.The team at Chalmers University of Technology may have found a new method to fight cancer through microwave. The research team hopes to test two different techniques in patients within the next six months.

The first method is a alternative to mammography , ie the use of X-rays to detect breast cancer, and the second method seeks to treat tumors, head and neck by heating the cancer cells, as recorded in a press release the university. Now the microwave can be used to create medical imaging, using a new technique known as microwave tomography. Andreas Fhager , associate professor of Bio-medical Electromagnetics, has developed a system to detect breast cancer through this new technique, which has several advantages over mammography.

The 3D image to view fabrics

"We get three-dimensional images that show significantly greater contrast between healthy and malignant tissues compared to x-ray imagery, which makes it easier to detect very small tumors, even those that currently can be hidden by healthy tissue, thus creating optimal conditions for a more reliable diagnosis, "says Professor Fhager. 

 "Unlike X-rays, the technique also gives a negligible dose of ionizing radiation, less than one hundredth of the radiation you are exposed when talking on a mobile phone," she continues Fhager. 

The 'microwave tomography' by Andreas Fhager currently consists of thirty antennas distributed around a cylindrical container adapted to the breast. All antennas act as transmitters and receivers. The microwaves are dispersed in a complex pattern that is analyzed by advanced algorithms to reconstruct an image of breast tissue in 3D . 

The idea is to use the technique in conjunction with a treatment couch, equipped with holes for introducing the breasts, which required about thirty this technique antennas are connected. In theory it should be much more comfortable for patients than mammography. The method is also much less expensive, not only because the microwave equipment are much cheaper, but also because the clearest images make interpretation easier for clinicians.