Title :
Balanced Antipodal Vivaldi Antenna for microwave tomography
Author :
Ahsan, Syed ; Yeboah-Akowuah, Bright ; Kosmas, Panagiotis ; Garcia, Helena Cano ; Palikaras, George ; Kallos, Efthymios
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Natural & Math. Sci., King´s Coll. London, London, UK
Abstract :
Balanced Antipodal Vivaldi Antennas (BAVAs) have been recently proposed for ultra-wideband (UWB) microwave imaging in medical applications such as breast cancer detection. This paper presents a modified design that allows the use of wideband BAVAs in microwave tomography, where the frequency range of interest is significantly lower than the UWB range down to 1 GHz. The performance of the antenna is evaluated using full-wave electromagnetic simulations.
Keywords :
biomedical imaging; cancer; microwave antennas; microwave imaging; tumours; ultra wideband antennas; UWB range; balanced antipodal vivaldi antenna; breast cancer detection; frequency 1 GHz; frequency range-of-interest; full-wave electromagnetic simulations; medical applications; microwave tomography; ultrawideband microwave imaging; wideband BAVAs; Breast cancer; Microwave antennas; Microwave imaging; Microwave theory and techniques; Tomography; Cancer Detection; Microwave Imaging; Wideband Antenna; vivaldi antenna;
Conference_Titel :
Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare (Mobihealth), 2014 EAI 4th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Athens
DOI :
10.1109/MOBIHEALTH.2014.7015974
