Numerical Modeling of the Internal Temperature in the Mammary Gland

TL;DR

This paper develops a detailed numerical model to accurately simulate the internal temperature distribution in mammary glands, aiding microwave thermometry for breast cancer diagnosis.

Contribution

It introduces a comprehensive mathematical model that accounts for various tissue components and their physical parameters to improve temperature measurement accuracy.

Findings

Numerical simulations align closely with real medical measurements.

The model effectively captures the complex tissue interactions affecting temperature distribution.

Enhanced accuracy in internal temperature estimation for breast tissue analysis.

Abstract

The microwave thermometry method for the diagnosis of breast cancer is based on an analysis of the internal temperature distribution.This paper is devoted to the construction of a mathematical model for increasing the accuracy of measuring the internal temperature of mammary glands, which are regarded as a complex combination of several components, such as fat tissue, muscle tissue, milk lobules, skin, blood flows, tumor tissue. Each of these biocomponents is determined by its own set of physical parameters. Our numerical model is designed to calculate the spatial distributions of the electric microwave field and the temperature inside the biological tissue. We compare the numerical simulations results to the real medical measurements of the internal temperature.