Broadband Dual Linear Polarized Antenna for Statistical Detection of Breast Cancer

Author

Woten, Douglas A. ; El-Shenawee, Magda

Author_Institution

Microelectron.-Photonics Program (Mi-croEP), Arkansas Univ., Fayetteville, AR

Volume

56

Issue

11

fYear

2008

Firstpage

3576

Lastpage

3580

Abstract

A broadband planar antenna capable of dual linear polarization is designed to be used for the detection of breast tumors. This antenna along with a breast model is simulated using the Ansoft HFSS v10.1. The S-parameters are used as input to Artificial Neural Networks for data processing to investigate the effect of polarization on the statistical detection. Using a dual polarized antenna allowed the calculation of all vertical and horizontal co- and cross-polarizations. The numerical results show that using polarizations parallel to the tumor´s major axis increases the likelihood of tumor detection.

Keywords

broadband antennas; cancer; medical computing; neural nets; patient diagnosis; tumours; Ansoft HFSS v10.1; S-parameters; artificial neural networks; breast cancer; breast tumors; broadband dual linear polarized antenna; data processing; statistical detection; Artificial neural networks; Breast cancer; Breast neoplasms; Breast tumors; Broadband antennas; Cancer detection; Electronic mail; Polarization; Receiving antennas; Scattering parameters; Artificial neural network; breast cancer detection; broadband antenna;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-926X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TAP.2008.2005545

Filename

4685899