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Medical Microwave Radiometry for R&D and Practical Applications
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Medical Microwave Radiometry for R&D and Practical Applications

A special issue of Diagnostics (ISSN 2075-4418). This special issue belongs to the section "Point-of-Care Diagnostics and Devices".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2022) | Viewed by 5141

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Igor Goryanin

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1. School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9YL, UK
2. Okinawa Institute Science and Technology Graduate Universality, Okinawa 904-0495, Japan
Interests: systems biology and medicine; microwave radiometry; metagenomics
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Dr. Sergey G. Vesnin

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MMWR Ltd., Edinburgh EH10 5LZ, UK
Interests: microwave radiometer; core body temperature; microwave antenna; microwave medical devices; breast cancer detection
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Special Issue Information

This Special Issue of Diagnostics is dedicated to Medical Microwave Radiometry for R&D and Practical Applications. Unlike infrared thermography, which visualizes the temperature of the skin, microwave radiometry (MWR) is based on the measurement of the tissue's own electromagnetic radiation in the microwave range. It allows for non-invasive detection of thermal anomalies of internal tissues at a depth of several centimeters. MWR can be used for non-invasive monitoring of the temperature of internal tissues during hypo- and hyper-thermia. It is known that the temperature of a malignant tumor depends on its growth rate; therefore, the temperature of the tumor is a natural indicator of the aggressiveness of the tumor. Diseases associated with inflammatory processes of internal tissues are the subjects of research by MWR. In addition, the technology can be used not only for diagnostics, but also to monitor the course of the treatment of diseases that are accompanied by changes in the temperature of internal tissues. Almost all human organs could be examined by MWR. The availability of non-expensive big MWR data has attracted the interest of machine learning specialists in order to improve the sensitivity and specificity of the method.

Prof. Igor Goryanin
Dr. Sergey G. Vesnin
Guest Editors

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Diagnostics is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • microwave radiometry
  • core body temperature
  • breast cancer detection
  • artificial intelligence
  • Covid-19 pneumonia
  • vulnerable plaque
  • carotid
  • hypothermia
  • hyperthermia
  • ischemic stroke
  • traumatic brain injury
  • rheumatoid arthritis
  • diabetic foot
  • brown adipose tissue activity
  • vesicoureteral reflux

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Treatment and Companion Diagnostics of Lower Back Pain Using Self-Controlled Energo-Neuroadaptive Regulator (SCENAR) and Passive Microwave Radiometry (MWR)
by Alexander Viktorovich Tarakanov, Alexander Alexandrovich Tarakanov, Tatyana Kharybina and Igor Goryanin
Diagnostics 2022, 12(5), 1220; https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics12051220 - 12 May 2022
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Evaluation of the effectiveness of treatment of nonspecific lower back pain (LBP) is currently largely based on the patient’s subjective feelings. The purpose of this study was to use passive microwave radiometry (MWR) as a tool for assessing the effectiveness of various treatment [...] Read more.
Evaluation of the effectiveness of treatment of nonspecific lower back pain (LBP) is currently largely based on the patient’s subjective feelings. The purpose of this study was to use passive microwave radiometry (MWR) as a tool for assessing the effectiveness of various treatment methods in patients with acute and subacute nonspecific LBP. Patients with a pain assessment on a visual analogue scale (VAS) of 6 to 10 points were divided into two groups: Group I included patients with pharmacological, syndrome-oriented treatment (n = 30, age 54.9 ± 2.3 years); Group II included a combination of pharmacotherapy with self-controlled energy-neuroadaptive regulation (SCENAR) (n = 25, age 52.8 ± 2.5 years). The analysis showed that the addition of SCENAR therapy (Group II) significantly potentiated the analgesic effect at the stages of treatment, and after 3 weeks, this had increased by more than two times, by 1.3 points on the VAS. There was also a significant decrease in the maximum internal temperature and normalization of the gradient of internal and skin temperatures, and a decrease in thermo-asymmetry, as assessed by temperature fields. Thermal asymmetry visualization allows the identification of the area of pathological muscle spasm and/or inflammation in the projection of the vertebral-motor segment for the possible targeted use of treatment methods such as percutaneous electro neurostimulation, massage, manual therapy, diagnostic and treatment blocks, etc. The MWR method also avoids unnecessary radiation exposure. Full article
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Microwave Radiometry for the Diagnosis and Monitoring of Inflammatory Arthritis
by Katerina Laskari, Elias Siores, Maria G. Tektonidou and Petros P. Sfikakis
Diagnostics 2023, 13(4), 609; https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics13040609 - 07 Feb 2023
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The ability of microwave radiometry (MWR) to detect with high accuracy in-depth temperature changes in human tissues is under investigation in various medical fields. The need for non-invasive, easily accessible imaging biomarkers for the diagnosis and monitoring of inflammatory arthritis provides the background [...] Read more.
The ability of microwave radiometry (MWR) to detect with high accuracy in-depth temperature changes in human tissues is under investigation in various medical fields. The need for non-invasive, easily accessible imaging biomarkers for the diagnosis and monitoring of inflammatory arthritis provides the background for this application in order to detect the local temperature increase due to the inflammatory process by placing the appropriate MWR sensor on the skin over the joint. Indeed, a number of studies reviewed herein have reported interesting results, suggesting that MWR is useful for the differential diagnosis of arthritis as well as for the assessment of clinical and subclinical inflammation at the individual large or small joint level and the patient level. MWR showed higher agreement with musculoskeletal ultrasound, used as a reference, than with clinical examination in rheumatoid arthritis (RA), while it also appeared useful for the assessment of back pain and sacroiliitis. Further studies with a larger number of patients are warranted to confirm these findings, taking into account the current limitations of the available MWR devices. This may lead to the production of easily accessible and inexpensive MWR devices that will provide a powerful impetus for personalized medicine. Full article
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