• DocumentCode
    471009
  • Title

    An Improved Hemispeherical Antenna Array Design for Breast Imaging

  • Author

    Craddock, I.J. ; Klemm, Michael ; Leendertz, J. ; Preece, A.W. ; Benjamin, R.

  • Author_Institution
    Univ. of Bristol, Bristol
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    11-16 Nov. 2007
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    5
  • Abstract
    This contribution presents a stacked-patch antenna designed for breast imaging. The design is compact (17 mm times 17 mm in cross section) and is well-matched from 4.5 GHz to nearly 9 GHz. Consideration is given to the ability of the antenna to radiate a broadband pulse into the breast, and the antenna is shown to perform well in this respect. An antenna array based around this element design is presented, along with a sample image from a phantom experiment.
  • Keywords
    antenna arrays; antenna radiation patterns; broadband antennas; medical image processing; microstrip antennas; antenna radiation; breast imaging; broadband pulse; hemispeherical antenna array; stacked-patch antenna; Imaging; antenna; array; breast; patch;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    iet
  • Conference_Titel
    Antennas and Propagation, 2007. EuCAP 2007. The Second European Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Edinburgh
  • Print_ISBN
    978-0-86341-842-6
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    4458727