Preliminary Investigations of Microwave Imaging Algorithms for Tissue Temperature Estimation during Hyperthermia Treatment

Monitoring of the temperature distribution inside the tissue to be treated plays the key role in success and safety of thermal therapies. Active microwave imaging represents a promising approach for non-invasive tissue temperature monitoring during hyperthermia treatment. In the present paper, an approach for quantitative non-invasive tissue temperature estimation via UWB imaging is described. Two types of imaging algorithms are considered - Delay and Sum beamforming and Truncated Singular Value Decomposition scheme. The capabilities of the proposed imaging algorithms are demonstrated by experiments with liquid phantoms. The results of our investigation show that both imaging algorithms can be applied for detection and estimation of the temperature induced dielectric property changes.