Abstract
Breast Cancer is one of the most frequently diagnosed cancer diseases worldwide, and the most common invasive tumour for women. As with all cancers, early detection plays a major role in reducing the mortality and morbidity rate. Currently, most breast cancers are detected due to clinical symptoms, or by screening mammography. The limitations of these techniques have resulted in research of alternative methods for imaging and detecting breast cancer. Apart from this, it is essential to define precise tumour margins during breast-conserving surgeries to reduce the re-excision rate. This study presents the advances in the development of a silicon-based THz sub-wavelength imager usable in life science applications, especially for tumour margin identification.
Funding statement: This work is part of the project NearSense- A silicon-based terahertz near-field imaging array for ex vivo life-science applications and was funded in the frame of the DFG priority program SPP 1857 ESSENCE (Elektromagnetic Sensors for Life Sciences).
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