Ultra-wideband active array imaging for biomedical diagnostics

Author

Hein, M. ; Helbig, M. ; Kmec, M. ; Sachs, J. ; Di Clemente, F. Scotto ; Stephan, R. ; Hamouda, M. ; Ussmueller, T. ; Weigel, R. ; Robens, M. ; Wunderlich, R. ; Heinen, S.

Author_Institution

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

fYear

2012

Firstpage

367

Lastpage

370

Abstract

Ultra-wideband active array imaging has proven extremely valuable for biomedical diagnostics. At the same time, the underlying technologies have achieved a high degree of maturity. Across institutions, we have merged our expertise in M-sequence radar systems, antennas, low-noise and high-power circuitry, to devise an UWB MIMO radar system for breast tumour localisation. Recent progress in UWB imaging and hardware for active antenna arrays is presented.

Keywords

MIMO radar; MIMO systems; antenna arrays; image denoising; m-sequences; mammography; medical image processing; microwave imaging; tumours; ultra wideband antennas; ultra wideband radar; UWB MIMO radar system; UWB imaging; active antenna arrays; biomedical diagnostics; breast tumour localisation; hardware; high-power circuitry; low-noise circuitry; m-sequence radar systems; microwave imaging; ultrawideband active array imaging; Antenna arrays; Arrays; Imaging; Impedance; Radar imaging; Ultra wideband antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation in Wireless Communications (APWC), 2012 IEEE-APS Topical Conference on

Conference_Location

Cape Town

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0404-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APWC.2012.6324920

Filename

6324920