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Experimental performance of compact UWB antenna for breast cancer screening

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Padhi, S
Mase, A
Ito, N
Zhang, Dan
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2012
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Padhi, S and Mase, A and Ito, N and Zhang, Dan. 2012. Experimental performance of compact UWB antenna for breast cancer screening, in 2012 International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA), Sep 2-7 2012, pp. 490-493. Cape Town: IEEE.
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2012 International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA)
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2012 International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA)
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This paper presents experimental performances of the algorithm used for detection of malignant tissue in breast. The algorithm uses ultra-short pulse radar (USPR) technique along with confocal microwave imaging (CMI) algorithm based on synthetic aperture radar (SAR) to detect tumor cells or tissue. A compact Vivaldi antenna having ultra-wideband (UWB) performance with bandwidth 3 GHz to 8 GHz is used as transceiver and an impulse with no distortion is used as an excitation signal in our experiment. We used various synthetic breast phantom and metallic or high-k dielectric balls as tumor. The skin subtraction method using Teflon cover seems to be promising for this experiment.