An Ultra Wideband Microwave Imaging System for Breast Cancer Detection

Wee Chang KHOR  Marek E. BIALKOWSKI  Amin ABBOSH  Norhudah SEMAN  Stuart CROZIER 

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications  Vol.E90-B  No.9  pp.2376-2381
Publication Date: 2007/09/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1345
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on 2006 International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation)
Category: Sensing
Keyword: 
cancer,  microwave imaging,  antennas,  biomedical imaging, 

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Summary: 
An experimental study concerning Ultra Wideband (UWB) Microwave Radar for breast cancer detection is described. A simple phantom, consisting of a cylindrical plastic container with a low dielectric constant material imitating fatty tissues and a high dielectric constant object emulating tumour, is scanned with a tapered slot antenna operating between 3.1 to 10.6 GHz. A successful detection of a target is accomplished by a visual inspection of a two-dimensional image of the scanned phantom