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Samar Hosseinzadegan1, Andreas Fhager1, Mikael Persson1
1Department of Electrical Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Abstract:
The two-dimensional electric field distribution of the microwave imaging system is numerically simulated for a simplified breast tumour model. The proposed two-dimensional discrete dipole approximation (DDA) has the potential to improve computational speed compared to other numerical methods while retaining comparable accuracy. We have modeled the field distributions in COMSOL Multiphysics as baseline results to benchmark the DDA simulations. We have also investigated the adequate sampling size and the effect of inclusion size and property contrast on solution accuracy. In this way, we can utilize the 2D DDA as an alternative, fast and reliable forward solver for microwave tomography. From a mathematical perspective, the derivation of the 2D DDA and its application to microwave imaging is new and not previously implemented. The simulation results and the measurements show that the 2D DDA is a well-grounded forward solver for the specified microwave breast imaging system.
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