Detection of the cervical spondylotic myelopathy using noninvasive microwave imaging technique

This paper represents a newly developed noninvasive diagnostic method for cervical myelopathy detection using the microwave imaging technology. In this technique, the neck will be illuminated by the electromagnetic waveform using a UWB antenna. Then the scattered field by the neck will be measured by the receiver UWB antennas at various locations around the neck. We have simulated a simple model of a neck for detecting cervical myelopathy using CST software. The computed results demonstrate the high feasibility of using microwave technique to diagnoses the cervical myelopathy.