Browsing by Author "Doğu, Semih"

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Differential Microwave Imaging of Cerebral Hemorrhage Via Dort Method
(IEEE, 2023) Dilman, İsmail; Bilgin, Egemen; Doğu, Semih
Bleeding in the brain tissues may cause fatal health conditions and continuous monitoring of the change in this blood accumulation becomes important in the first few hours after the incident. The continuous post-event monitoring aims to detect the variations in the size and the shape of the hemorrhage regions. To this end, the human head is illuminated by non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation, and the scattered field is measured in different time instants. The decomposition of the time-reversal (DORT) method is then used as the microwave imaging algorithm to produce an indicator function. The performance of the proposed technique is assessed via numerical simulations involving a realistic human head phantom. The results suggest that the DORT method is capable of detecting the changes in multiple simultaneous cerebral hemorrhage regions successfully.
Citation - Scopus: 2
Feasibility of Distorted Born Iterative Method for Detecting Early Stage of Heart Failure
(IEEE, 2020) Akıncı, Mehmet Nuri; Bilgin, Egemen; Joof, Sulayman; Doğu, Semih
In this paper, we analyze the feasibility of using microwaves to detect early stage of congestive heart failure, which causes water accumulation in the lungs. To this aim, a slice from realistic human torso phantom, which consists of all human tissues and organs, is considered. Constitutive parameters of the phantom are calculated by multiple order Cole-Cole model at operating frequency. Then, the scattered field is calculated via method of moment and a 30 dB additive white Gaussian noise is added to create a more realistic scenario. In the solution of inverse scattering phase, distorted Born iterative method is utilized. The presented results show the feasibility of the proposed method.
Citation - WoS: 1
A Modified Newton Method Formulation for Microwave Imaging
(IEEE, 2020) Coşğun, Sema; Çayören, Mehmet; Bilgin, Egemen; Doğu, Semih
A new variant of Newton type methods has been developed for quantitative microwave imaging. To deal with the ill-posedness of the inverse problems, standard Newton type methods involve a linearization of the so called data equation using the Fréchet derivative with respect to the contrast function. Here, the formulation is expanded to include the object equation, therefore, the formulation seeks to reduce the errors in both the data and the object equations. While this modification does not remove the need to solve forward problem at each step, it nevertheless significantly improves convergence rate and the performance. To assess the efficiency of the proposed technique, numerical simulations with synthetic and experimental data have been carried out. The results demonstrate that the proposed variant outperforms the standard Newton method, and shows comparable performance to the contrast source inversion (CSI) algorithm with fewer iterations.
Citation - Scopus: 5
An Antipodal Vivaldi Antenna Design for Torso Imaging in a Coupling Medium
(IEEE, 2021) Çayören, Mehmet; Bilgin, Egemen; Joof, Sulayman; Doğu, Semih
An antipodal Vivaldi antenna designed to operate in a coupling medium with a relative dielectric constant of epsilon(r) = 25 for microwave imaging of torso is presented in this paper. The proposed antenna is similar to the conventional antipodal Vivaldi antenna but with optimized parameters to radiate in the desired coupling medium. The antenna has a size of 120x70 mm(2) and operating over 230-1000 MHz frequency bandwidth with a peak gain of 5.42 dBi and peak front-to-back ratio of 143 dB. The designed antenna shows a better performance compared to other antennas used for microwave torso imaging. To assess the actual performance, a realistic human torso phantom is implemented to detect the water accumulation in the lungs, and as the inversion method linear sampling method is used. The 3-D reconstruction results show that the proposed antenna can be a candidate for microwave torso imaging applications.