Vivaldi antenna and breast phantom design for breast cancer imaging

Author

Bah, Mamadou Hady ; Jingsong Hong ; Jamro, Deedar Ali ; Jia Jun Liang ; Kponou, Elisee A.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Phys. Electron., Univ. of Electron. Sci. & Technol. of China, Chengdu, China

fYear

2014

fDate

14-16 Oct. 2014

Firstpage

90

Lastpage

93

Abstract

In this work, the design and implementation of a Vivaldi antenna (BAVA) and breast phantom for breast cancer imaging have been covered within the range of 3.1-10.6 GHz. A good impedance matching between simulation and measurements is presented here. Two different phantoms are made to simulate the scene. A dielectric constant relatively close to the real breast tissues has also been found. This design has the ability to be used in breast cancer detection without the need of any liquid coupling medium which is required in many other publications.

Keywords

antennas; cancer; microwave imaging; permittivity; phantoms; tumours; BAVA design; Vivaldi antenna; breast cancer detection; breast cancer imaging; breast phantom; dielectric constant; frequency 3.1 GHz to 10.6 GHz; real breast tissues; Antenna arrays; Antenna measurements; Breast; Microwave antennas; Microwave imaging; Microwave theory and techniques; BAVA; Microwave imaging; antenna directivity; breast and tumor phantoms; dielectric constant;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Biomedical Engineering and Informatics (BMEI), 2014 7th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Dalian

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-5837-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BMEI.2014.7002749

Filename

7002749