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Balanced Antipodal Vivaldi Antenna for Microwave Tomography

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/icst.mobihealth.2014.257515,
    author={Syed Ahsan and Bright Yeboah-Akowuah and Kosmas Panagiotis and Helena Cano Garc\^{\i}a and George Palikaras and Efthymios Kallos},
    title={Balanced Antipodal Vivaldi Antenna for Microwave Tomography},
    proceedings={4th International Conference on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare - "Transforming healthcare through innovations in mobile and wireless technologies"},
    publisher={IEEE},
    proceedings_a={MOBIHEALTH},
    year={2014},
    month={12},
    keywords={microwave imaging; wideband antenna; cancer detection; vivaldi antenna},
    doi={10.4108/icst.mobihealth.2014.257515}
}
  • Syed Ahsan
    Bright Yeboah-Akowuah
    Kosmas Panagiotis
    Helena Cano García
    George Palikaras
    Efthymios Kallos
    Year: 2014
    Balanced Antipodal Vivaldi Antenna for Microwave Tomography
    MOBIHEALTH
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.4108/icst.mobihealth.2014.257515
Syed Ahsan,*, Bright Yeboah-Akowuah1, Kosmas Panagiotis1, Helena Cano García2, George Palikaras2, Efthymios Kallos2
  • 1: King's College London
  • 2: Mediwise
*Contact email: naveedsyed@gmail.com

Abstract

Abstract—Balanced Antipodal Vivaldi Antennas (BAVAs) have been recently proposed for ultra-wideband (UWB) microwave imaging in medical applications such as breast cancer detection. This paper presents a modified design that allows the use of wideband BAVAs in microwave tomography, where the frequency range of interest is significantly lower than the UWB range down to 1 GHz. The performance of the antenna is evaluated using full-wave electromagnetic simulations.

Keywords
microwave imaging; wideband antenna; cancer detection; vivaldi antenna
Published
2014-12-05
Publisher
IEEE
http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/icst.mobihealth.2014.257515
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