Aims and Methods: A practically implementable structure and its quite encouraging detection results for breast cancer are shown in this study. The novelty of the proposed structure, as compared to its counterparts introduced in the literature resides in its interesting potential as a self-examine detector. The ultimate goal is that the patients use the device themselves with no need to any physical presence in a clinic. The device should be used periodically for routine checkups. It is designed to compare the current situation of the tissue with the built-in history of the previous measurements, and to detect the changes which may actually be due to a tumor creation even at its early stages. For our measurements, we used an ENA and the measured data was analyzed in MATLAB to generate the cumulative differences in phase and magnitude of the scattering parameters between normal and cancer tissues. The simulations were done in HFSS. Results and Conclusions: The preliminary simulation and experimental results of our novel radiator structure are promising. In the simulations, Ansoft digital human phantom was used in order to have a precise model of female body. The tool could detect the tumors in different shapes and sizes up to the depth of 4cm. For our preliminary experiments, we built two breast phantoms, one of which had a donated breast tumor inside it. The tumor was placed inside the glandular tissue at the depth of almost 4cm. It was shown that measuring the S parameters and calculating the cumulative differences, one can successfully identify the existence of an abnormality in the cancerous phantom. Online Calibration of Interface Characteristic Variation in Capacitively Coupled Non-Contact EEG Acquisition System Jingyi Song and Yun Chiu Analog and Mixed-Signal Lab, TxACE Department of Electrical Engineering University of Texas at Dallas Richardson, TX 75080 Gel-free, non-contact electroencephalograph (EEG) acquisition is quickly arising as a contender to wet-electrode sensing techniques, particularly for ambulance applications. One critical
Aims and Methods: A practically implementable structure and its quite encouraging detection results for breast cancer are shown in this study. The novelty of the proposed structure, as compared to its counterparts introduced in the literature resides in its interesting potential as a self-examine detector. The ultimate goal is that the patients use the device themselves with no need to any physical presence in a clinic. The device should be used periodically for routine checkups. It is designed to compare the current situation of the tissue with the built-in history of the previous measurements, and to detect the changes which may actually be due to a tumor creation even at its early stages. For our measurements, we used an ENA and the measured data was analyzed in MATLAB to generate the cumulative differences in phase and magnitude of the scattering parameters between normal and cancer tissues. The simulations were done in HFSS. Results and Conclusions: The preliminary simulation and experimental results of our novel radiator structure are promising. In the simulations, Ansoft digital human phantom was used in order to have a precise model of female body. The tool could detect the tumors in different shapes and sizes up to the depth of 4cm. For our preliminary experiments, we built two breast phantoms, one of which had a donated breast tumor inside it. The tumor was placed inside the glandular tissue at the depth of almost 4cm. It was shown that measuring the S parameters and calculating the cumulative differences, one can successfully identify the existence of an abnormality in the cancerous phantom. Online Calibration of Interface Characteristic Variation in Capacitively Coupled Non-Contact EEG Acquisition System Jingyi Song and Yun Chiu Analog and Mixed-Signal Lab, TxACE Department of Electrical Engineering University of Texas at Dallas Richardson, TX 75080 Gel-free, non-contact electroencephalograph (EEG) acquisition is quickly arising as a contender to wet-electrode sensing techniques, particularly for ambulance applications. One critical
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