Balanced Antipodal Vivaldi Antenna for microwave tomography

Author

Ahsan, Syed ; Yeboah-Akowuah, Bright ; Kosmas, Panagiotis ; Garcia, Helena Cano ; Palikaras, George ; Kallos, Efthymios

Author_Institution

Sch. of Natural & Math. Sci., King´s Coll. London, London, UK

fYear

2014

fDate

3-5 Nov. 2014

Firstpage

316

Lastpage

319

Abstract

Balanced Antipodal Vivaldi Antennas (BAVAs) have been recently proposed for ultra-wideband (UWB) microwave imaging in medical applications such as breast cancer detection. This paper presents a modified design that allows the use of wideband BAVAs in microwave tomography, where the frequency range of interest is significantly lower than the UWB range down to 1 GHz. The performance of the antenna is evaluated using full-wave electromagnetic simulations.

Keywords

biomedical imaging; cancer; microwave antennas; microwave imaging; tumours; ultra wideband antennas; UWB range; balanced antipodal vivaldi antenna; breast cancer detection; frequency 1 GHz; frequency range-of-interest; full-wave electromagnetic simulations; medical applications; microwave tomography; ultrawideband microwave imaging; wideband BAVAs; Breast cancer; Microwave antennas; Microwave imaging; Microwave theory and techniques; Tomography; Cancer Detection; Microwave Imaging; Wideband Antenna; vivaldi antenna;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare (Mobihealth), 2014 EAI 4th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Athens

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MOBIHEALTH.2014.7015974

Filename

7015974