Experimental active antenna measurement setup for UWB breast cancer detection

Author

Helbig, M. ; Hein, M.A. ; Herrmann, R. ; Kmec, M. ; Sachs, J. ; Schilling, K. ; Di Clemente, F. Scotto ; Hilger, I. ; Dahlke, K. ; Rauschenbach, P.

Author_Institution

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

fYear

2012

fDate

17-20 Sept. 2012

Firstpage

111

Lastpage

114

Abstract

Imaging by microwave UWB radar represents a promising technique for early-stage breast cancer detection. We present an experimental measurement setup for breast phantom trials based on M-sequence radar technology and active small antennas (interfacial dipoles). This approach combines short impulse responses, sufficient fidelity and very small antenna dimensions and allows for array construction with an adequate number of antennas around the breast. The presented imaging results illustrate the performance of the method.

Keywords

active antennas; antenna arrays; cancer; medical image processing; microwave imaging; object detection; radar antennas; radar detection; radar imaging; transient response; ultra wideband radar; M-sequence radar technology; UWB breast cancer detection; active antenna measurement; active small antenna; antenna dimension; array construction; breast phantom trial; early-stage breast cancer detection; impulse response; interfacial dipole; microwave UWB radar imaging; Antenna measurements; Biomedical measurements; Materials; Phantoms; Radar antennas; Active antennas; M-sequence radar; UWB; breast cancer detection; breast phantoms; small antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Ultra-Wideband (ICUWB), 2012 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Syracuse, NY

ISSN

2162-6588

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-2031-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340449

Filename

6340449