ArticleMaterials (Basel, Switzerland)2023
Microwave Imaging Approach for Breast Cancer Detection Using a Tapered Slot Antenna Loaded with Parasitic Components.
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- An accurate analytical modeling method for microwave-based breast tumor detection and phantom manufacturing.Biomedical engineering letters · 2026Article
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- UWB Antenna with Enhanced Directivity for Applications in Microwave Medical Imaging.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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- Compact Flexible Planar Antennas for Biomedical Applications: Insight into Materials and Systems Design.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Fabrication of mm-Scale Complementary Split Ring Resonators, for Potential Application as Water Pollution Sensors.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- UWB-Modulated Microwave Imaging for Human Brain Functional Monitoring.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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Abstract
In this paper, a wideband antenna is proposed for ultra-wideband microwave imaging applications. The antenna is comprised of a tapered slot ground, a rectangular slotted patch and four star-shaped parasitic components. The added slotted patch is shown to be effective in improving the bandwidth and gain. The proposed antenna system provides a realized gain of 6 dBi, an efficiency of around 80% on the radiation bandwidth, and a wide impedance bandwidth (S11 < -10 dB) of 6.3 GHz (from 3.8 to 10.1 GHz). This supports a true wideband operation. Furthermore, the fidelity factor for face-to-face (FtF) direction is 91.6%, and for side by side (SbS) is 91.2%. This proves the excellent directionality and less signal distortion of the designed antenna. These high figures establish the potential use of the proposed antenna for imaging. A heterogeneous breast phantom with dielectric characteristics identical to actual breast tissue with the presence of tumors was constructed for experimental validation. An antenna array of the proposed antenna element was situated over an artificial breast to collect reflected and transmitted waves for tumor characterization. Finally, an imaging algorithm was used to process the retrieved data to recreate the image in order to detect the undesirable tumor object inside the breast phantom.
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