Published April 14, 2024 | Version v1
Conference paper Open

Localization and Tracking of Gold Nanoparticles Using mmWave FMCW Radar

  • 1. Faculty of Math and Computer Science, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
  • 2. Department of Chemical Engineering, Technion, Haifa, Israel
  • 3. The Norman Seiden Multidisciplinary Program for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Technion, Haifa, Israel

Description

Conference publication presented at: ICASSP 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). 14-19 April 2024

Abstract

Gold nanoparticles (GNPs) hold promise to improve the detection and treatment of diseases such as cancer and Alzheimer’s. However, detecting GNPs in the body remains an unmet technological challenge. This work introduces a new methodology for remotely localizing and tracking GNPs in various therapeutic settings, including through biological tissues, using a compact millimeter-wave radar system. By modeling GNP detection as a sparse recovery problem, we propose a method that localizes GNPs in cluttered environments as well as detects changes in concentrations that relate to changes in the intensity of the reflected signals. Our approach paves the way to a first-ever noninvasive, non-ionizing, simple approach for bioimaging and tracking GNPs inside the body.

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2024 - Localization_and_Tracking_of_Gold_Nanoparticles_Using_mmWave_FMCW_Radar.pdf

Additional details

Funding

European Commission
PERSEUS - 2D Material-Based Multiple Oncotherapy Against Metastatic Disease Using a Radically New Computed Tomography Approach 101099423

Dates

Accepted
2024-04-14