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Metasurface Technology for Medical Imaging

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Electromagnetic Imaging for a Novel Generation of Medical Devices

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Abstract

Nowadays, medical imaging and healthcare in general are facing an ever growing number of challenges. Increase in life expectancy, for example, results in a growing economic cost of healthcare services. In particular, the need for medical imaging equipment worldwide is expected to grow driven by the global rise of various pathologies such as cancer, cardiovascular diseases, brain disorders and lung diseases. In this framework, medical imaging technologies play a key role, being the essential clinical tool to deliver accurate initial diagnosis and treatments’ monitoring. Similar to other imaging modalities, medical imaging based on microwave technology requires designing systems with increasing number of sensors (i.e. antennas). Using metasurfaces can not only improve the characteristics of these antennas, but also enhance detection by tackling the impedance mismatch problem that electromagnetic waves encounter when probing human tissue. This chapter focuses on two potential clinical applications where the use of metasurfaces can improve the performance of microwave-based systems: stroke detection and liver ablation monitoring.

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This research was supported by the EMERALD project funded from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 764479.

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    Eleonora Razzicchia, Navid Ghavami, Olympia Karadima & Panagiotis Kosmas

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Razzicchia, E., Ghavami, N., Karadima, O., Kosmas, P. (2023). Metasurface Technology for Medical Imaging. In: Vipiana, F., Crocco, L. (eds) Electromagnetic Imaging for a Novel Generation of Medical Devices. Lecture Notes in Bioengineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28666-7_3

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