Microwave Bone Imaging: A Preliminary Investigation on Numerical Bone Phantoms for Bone Health Monitoring

Bone Up on Bone Health

Bone disease has reached near-epidemic proportions in America. Millions of people are suffering the often-crippling and devastating effects of diseases such as osteoporosis, a condition that results in a "demineralization" of the bone matrix, causing bones to become less dense over time and increasing the risk of fractures, especially of the spine, wrist and hip; and osteopenia (softening of th...

Microwave Tumor Ablation of Vertebral Bone Metastasis: A Case Report

Introduction: Thermal ablation by microwave (MWA) has proven efficacy in treatment of primary and metastatic cancers. Soft tissue tumors could be ablated completely using MWA. However, bony tissue metastasis particularly spinal vertebral metastasis ablation has not reported yet. Case presentation: A 50 year old male patient with primary diagnosed colon cancer undergone surgical resection of ...

Microwave bone imaging: a preliminary scanning system for proof-of-concept

This Letter introduces a feasibility study of a scanning system for applications in biomedical bone imaging operating in the microwave range 0.5-4 GHz. Mechanical uncertainties and data acquisition time are minimised by using a fully automated scanner that controls two antipodal Vivaldi antennas. Accurate antenna positioning and synchronisation with data acquisition enables a rigorous proof-of-...

Bone deficit and bone health.

Bone-composition imaging using coherent-scatter computed tomography: assessing bone health beyond bone mineral density.

Quantitative analysis of bone composition is necessary for the accurate diagnosis and monitoring of metabolic bone diseases. Accurate assessment of the bone mineralization state is the first requirement for a comprehensive analysis. In diagnostic imaging, x-ray coherent scatter depends upon the molecular structure of tissues. Coherent-scatter computed tomography (CSCT) exploits this feature to ...