Aspects of antenna array configuration for UWB breast imaging

Author

Helbig, M. ; Kmec, M. ; Sachs, J. ; Geyer, C. ; Hilger, I. ; Rimkus, G.

Author_Institution

Inst. for Inf. Technol., Ilmenau Univ. of Technol., Ilmenau, Germany

fYear

2012

fDate

26-30 March 2012

Firstpage

1737

Lastpage

1741

Abstract

Microwave UWB radar and imaging provides perspectives for early-stage breast cancer detection. We present an experimental MIMO setup for breast phantom trials based on M-sequence radar technology and electrically short antennas (bowtie dipoles). This approach combines short impulse responses, sufficient fidelity and very small antenna dimension and allows array construction with sufficient number of antennas around the breast. Obtained imaging results will be presented and aspects regarding the array configuration will be discussed.

Keywords

MIMO radar; bow-tie antennas; cancer; dipole antenna arrays; m-sequences; microwave antenna arrays; microwave imaging; phantoms; ultra wideband antennas; ultra wideband radar; M-sequence radar technology; UWB breast imaging; antenna array configuration; bowtie dipoles; breast phantom; early-stage breast cancer detection; electrically short antennas; experimental MIMO setup; microwave UWB imaging; microwave UWB radar; short impulse responses; Antenna arrays; Antenna measurements; Arrays; Breast; Phantoms; Radar imaging; M-sequence radar technology; UWB; breast cancer detection; breast phantoms; electrically short antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation (EUCAP), 2012 6th European Conference on

Conference_Location

Prague

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0918-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4577-0919-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EuCAP.2012.6206594

Filename

6206594