Title :
A double-ridged horn antenna design in canola oil for medical imaging
Author :
Latif, Saeed ; Pistorius, Stephen ; Shafai, L.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of South Alabama, Mobile, AL, USA
Abstract :
The design of a double-ridged horn antenna for medical imaging is presented in this paper. The antenna is immersed in canola oil to reduce its size and to achieve efficient coupling of the electromagnetic energy to the breast tissue. The antenna has wideband performance from 1.5 GHz to 5 GHz (3.5 GHz or 108% of impedance bandwidth), which is suitable for radar-based medical imaging. The double-ridged horn antenna has exponential tapered section for impedance matching. The detail design equations and antenna parameters are presented. The fabricated antenna was tested and compared with simulated results, and excellent agreement has been observed.
Keywords :
biological tissues; biomedical equipment; horn antennas; image matching; medical image processing; microwave imaging; radar antennas; antenna parameters; bandwidth 1.5 GHz to 5 GHz; bandwidth 3.5 GHz; breast tissue; canola oil; design equations; double-ridged horn antenna design; electromagnetic energy coupling; exponential tapered section; impedance matching; radar-based medical imaging; Antenna measurements; Breast; Horn antennas; Microwave antennas; Microwave imaging; Microwave theory and techniques; Horn antennas; biomedical devices; medical imaging; radar imaging; wideband antennas;
Conference_Titel :
Advances in Electrical Engineering (ICAEE), 2013 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Dhaka
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-2463-9
DOI :
10.1109/ICAEE.2013.6750375
