IEEE AP/CAS/ED/MTT/SSC Seminar

Title: Detectability of Breast Tumor by a Hand-held Impulse-Radar Detector: Performance Evaluation and Pilot Clinical Study

Speaker: Dr. Takamaro Kikkawa
Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

Date: October 22, 2018 from 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM

Agenda:
3:00-3:15pm Sign-in and networking
3:15-4:30pm Seminar and Q&A

Location: Qualcomm AZ Multipurpose Room A/B (10155 Pacific Heights Blvd, San Diego, CA 92121)
Non-Qualcomm attendees: Please arrive 10-15 minutes early to find street parking or in nearby Qualcomm parking structures.

Cost: Free

Abstract:
A hand-held impulse-radar breast cancer detector is presented and the detectability of malignant breast tumors is demonstrated in the clinical test at Hiroshima University Hospital. The core function of the detector consists of 65 nm technology CMOS integrated circuits covering the ultrawideband width from 3.1 to for 10.6 GHz, which enable the generation and transmission of Gaussian monocycle pulse with the pulse width of 160 ps, the equivalent time sampling at 100 GS/s and the single port eight throw switching matrices for controlling the combination of 4x4 cross-shaped antenna array.

Speaker biography:
Takamaro Kikkawa received the Ph.D. degree in electronic system from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan. He was a Visiting Scientist at MIT. He has been with NEC Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, where he conducted the research and development on the interconnect technologies for logic ULSI and DRAM. He is currently Professor of the Research Institute for Nanodevice and Bio Systems, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan. He is Life Fellow of the IEEE and Fellow of Japan Society of Applied Physics.