Ultra-wide band TEM horn antenna for microwave imaging of the breast

Author

Amineh, Reza K. ; Trehan, Aastha ; Nikolova, Natalia K.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., McMaster Univ., Hamilton, ON

fYear

2009

fDate

15-18 Feb. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

A novel TEM horn antenna enclosed in a dielectric medium is proposed for microwave imaging of the breast. The outer surface of the dielectric enclosure is covered partially by copper sheets and a microwave absorbing sheet in order to electromagnetically isolate the antenna from surrounding interferences and to couple most of the microwave energy to the tissue. The results show that the antenna operates well in the whole UWB frequency band without the need for a coupling medium.

Keywords

biological tissues; horn antennas; medical image processing; microwave imaging; ultra wideband antennas; breast; copper sheets; microwave absorbing sheet; microwave imaging; tissue; ultrawideband TEM horn antenna; Breast; Copper; Dielectrics; Electromagnetic coupling; Electromagnetic interference; Frequency; Horn antennas; Microwave antennas; Microwave imaging; Ultra wideband antennas; TEM horn antenna; breast cancer detection; microwave imaging; ultra-wide band;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics and the Canadian Radio Science Meeting, 2009. ANTEM/URSI 2009. 13th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Toronto, ON

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2979-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2980-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ANTEMURSI.2009.4805080

Filename

4805080