• NIH, 2005-2010, Ultrawideband Microwave Detection of Breast Cancer

• 6,421,550 - Microwave discrimination between malignant and benign breast tumors, granted Jul 2002.
• 6,061,589 - Microwave antenna for cancer detection system, granted May 2000.

• "3D computational study of non-invasive patient-specific microwave hyperthermia treatment of breast cancer"

Zastrow E, Hagness SC, Van Veen BD, Physics in Medicine and Biology 55 (13): 3611-3629 Jul 2010.  Non-invasive microwave hyperthermia treatment of breast cancer is investigated using three-dimensional (3D) numerical breast phantoms with anatomical and dielectric-properties realism.

• "Contrast-enhanced microwave imaging of breast tumors: a computational study using 3D realistic numerical phantoms"

Shea JD, Kosmas P, Van Veen BD, et al., Inverse Problems 26 (7): 074009 Jul 2010.  The detection of early-stage tumors in the breast by microwave imaging is challenged by both the moderate endogenous dielectric contrast between healthy and malignant glandular tissues and the spatial resolution available from illumination at microwave frequencies.  Differential images of the applied contrast demonstrate the potential of the approach for detecting the preferential uptake of contrast agents by malignant tissues.

• "Granular segregation studies for the development of radar-based three-dimensional sensing system"

Hill KM, Fan Y, Zhang J, Van Niekerk C, Zastrow E, Hagness SC, Bernhard JT, Granular Matter 12(2): Sp. Iss. SI: 201-207 Apr 2010.  The authors present new ongoing experimental and computational results toward building a versatile sensing system for high solids fraction granular systems. 

• "Terahertz conductivity of doped silicon calculated using the ensemble Monte Carlo/finite-difference time-domain simulation technique"

Willis KJ, Hagness SC, Applied Physics Letters 96 (6): article #062106 Feb 2010. We present terahertz-frequency characterization of doped silicon via a multiphysics numerical technique that couples ensemble Monte Carlo (EMC) simulation of carrier transport and a finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) solver of Maxwell's curl equations.

• Computational Electromagnetics Laboratory (UWCEM)
• Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center
• University of Calgary, Leah McCartney, Electrical and Computer Engineering
• University of Calgary, Anthony Magliocco, Pathology
• Intra-University Collaboration: Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, Pathology, Medical Physics

• Agilent 8720ES 50MHz - 20GHz Vector Network Analyzer
• Cray supercomputers (T90-series and SV1-series)
• Agilent E8364A 45 MHz - 50 GHz Performance Network Analyzer
• Experimental setup for imaging breast phantoms

• Computational Electromagnetics Laboratory
• Laboratory for Medical Applications of Microwaves