Head and Neck Numerical Phantom Development for Cervical Lymph Node Microwave Imaging

In this paper, we present a methodology to build a numerical phantom for the head and neck regions, which can be used to develop a cervical lymph node microwave imaging device. We have shown a pipeline of data processing steps which can be applied to Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI) of the head and neck. Such models will be the starting point to start developing a microwave imaging device suitable to detect metastasized cervical lymph nodes and as a result contribute to the correct staging of head and neck cancer.