A WIDEBAND HALF OVAL PATCH ANTENNA FOR BREAST IMAGING

被引:16
作者
Yu, J. [1 ,2 ]
Yuan, M. [1 ]
Liu, Q. H. [1 ]
机构
[1] Duke Univ, Dept Elect & Comp Engn, Durham, NC 27708 USA
[2] EMC, Natl Key Lab, Wuhan 430064, Hubei, Peoples R China
关键词
MICROWAVE DIELECTRIC-PROPERTIES; THERMO-ACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; TIME-REVERSAL MIRROR; CANCER-DETECTION; POLARIZED ANTENNA; LARGE-SCALE; PROTOTYPE; RECONSTRUCTION; SURGERIES; TISSUE;
D O I
10.2528/PIER09090304
中图分类号
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
A simple half oval patch antenna is proposed for the active breast cancer imaging over a wide bandwidth. The antenna consists of a half oval and a trapezium, with a total length 15.1 mm and is fed by a coaxial cable. The antenna performance is simulated and measured as immersed in a dielectric matching medium. Measurement and simulation results show that it can obtain a return loss less than -10 dB from 2.7 to 5 GHz. The scattered field detection capability is also studied by simulations of two opposite placed antennas and a full antenna array on a cubic chamber.
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