M.Sc. Alexandra Prokhorova


Last update: July27th, 2021

Specialized in medical microwave imaging, numerical simulation and image post-processing.

Research associate

alexandra.prokhorova@tu-ilmenau.de
+49 3677 69-2771
Bionik building, room Bi 2122

List of publications

ORCID profile

Research and work areas:

  • Development of a UWB radar methodology for non-invasive tissue temperature monitoring inside the human body during hyperthermia treatment
  • Implementation and evaluation of robust and real-time capable signal processing algorithms for remote tissue temperature monitoring
  • Imaging of tissue temperature distribution
  • Design and test of UWB sensors for co-existence with high power microwave heating applicators

Publikationsliste:

  • Prokhorova, A., Ley, S., Ruiz, A. Y., Scapaticci, R., Crocco, L., Helbig, M. (2021). Preliminary Investigations of Microwave Imaging Algorithms for Tissue Temperature Estimation During Hyperthermia Treatment. 22th International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA 2021), (in press).
  • Prokhorova, A.; Ley, S.; Helbig, M. Quantitative Interpretation of UWB Radar Images for Non-Invasive Tissue Temperature Estimation during Hyperthermia. Diagnostics 2021, 11, 818. https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics11050818
  • Fiser, O., Kantova, M., Ley, S., Prokhorova, A., Helbig, M., & Vrba, J. (2020). Advanced Temperature Dielectric Spectroscopy of Muscle Phantom at Microwave Frequencies. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3783769
  • Prokhorova, A., Ley, S., Fiser, O., Vrba, J., Sachs, J., & Helbig, M. Temperature Dependent Dielectric Properties of Tissue Mimicking Phantom Material in the Microwave Frequency Range. 2020 14th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 1-5.
  • Ley, S., Schilling, S., Fiser, O., Vrba, J., Sachs, J., Prokhorova, A., & Helbig, M. (2019). Ultra-Wideband Temperature Dependent Dielectric Spectroscopy of Porcine Muscle in the Microwave Frequency Range. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3783776

Short biography

  • since 2019     Research associate at BMTI (EMERALD project)
  • 2018              Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering at Bauman Moscow State Technical University (BMSTU), Russia
  • 2017              Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering at Bauman Moscow State Technical University (BMSTU), Russia

Awards

  • 1st degree diploma in nomination "Biomedical Technologies" of all-Russian competition of scientific and research works in the field of Engineering and Humanities dedicated to the 170th anniversary of the birth of N. E. Zhukovsky in 2017 with the project "Development of a Radar Biotechnical System for Microwave Imaging of Dielectric Inhomogeneities of Biological Tissues".