Microwave tomographic spectroscopy for an assessment tissue oxygenation

Microwave tomography, being a novel imaging modality, has potentials for an assessment of functional and pathological conditions of biological tissues. The examples are: tissue malignancies, with recent major focus on breast cancer detection, tissue blood content, ischemia, infarction, stroke and others. Early in non-imaging experiments we have demonstrated the feasibility of the technology for an assessment of tissue oxygenation status. The goal of this preliminary study was to use microwave tomographic spectroscopy for an assessment of tissue oxygenation status during an imaging procedure of swine medial foreleg.