Experimental performance of compact UWB antenna for breast cancer screening

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.

Citation

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.

Source Title

2012 International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA)

DOI

10.1109/ICEAA.2012.6328677

ISBN

978-1-4673-0333-0

Remarks

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URI

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/47176

Collection

Curtin Research Publications