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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2022

Multi-Element UWB Probe Optimization for Medical Microwave Imaging.

Youness Akazzim, Otman El Mrabet, Jordi Romeu, Luis Jofre-Roca

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 39% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Youness AkazzimSchool of Telecommunication Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 08034 Barcelona, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-7957-4044
Otman El MrabetSystem of Information and Telecommunications Laboratory (LaSIT), Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tetouan 93000, Morocco.ORCID 0000-0001-9722-9140
Jordi RomeuSchool of Telecommunication Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 08034 Barcelona, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-0197-5961
Luis Jofre-RocaSchool of Telecommunication Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 08034 Barcelona, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-0547-901X
Abdelmalek Essaâdi University · MAUniversitat Politècnica de Catalunya · ES

Funding

Agency for Administration of University and Research (FI-SDUR)(2021 FISDU 00195)National Center for Scientific and Technological Research (CNRST), Morocco PPR2/2015/36Spanish "Comision Interministerial de Ciencia y Tecnologia" (CICYT) CICYT PID2019-107885GB-C31
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The need for non-ionizing techniques for medical imaging applications has led to the use of microwave signals. Several systems have been introduced in recent years based on increasing the number of antennas and frequency bandwidth to obtain high resolution and good accuracy in locating objects. A novel microwave imaging system that reduces the number of required antennas for precise target location appropriate for medical applications is presented. The proposed system consists of four UWB extended gap ridge horn (EGRH) antennas covering the frequency band from 0.5 GHz to 1.5 GHz mounted on a cylindrical phantom that mimics the brain in an orthogonal set of two EGRH probes. This configuration has the ability to control both the longitudinal and transversal dimensions of the reconstructed target's image, rather than controlling the spatial resolution, by increasing the frequency band that can be easily affected by medium losses. The system is tested numerically and experimentally by the detection of a cylindrical target within a human brain model.

Indexed as

Microwave ImagingMicrowavesDiagnostic ImagingHumansPhantoms, Imagingbrain imagingfocusing techniquemedical applicationsmicrowave imaging systemsUWB imaging

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PMID36616869
PMCPMC9824268
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