Ultra-wideband on-body elliptical monopole antenna
- This study presents an ultra-wideband, elliptical slot, planar monopole antenna for early breast cancer microwave imaging. The on-body antenna's operation is optimised by direct contact with the patient's skin. With a compact size of 9 × 7 mm, the antenna covers a wide bandwidth from 16 to 24 GHz for reflection coefficients lower than –10 dB. Besides, it also features an electrode for electrical impedance tomography applications. Verification on a volunteer's breast gives an excellent agreement with the simulation for the defined bandwidth. Furthermore, as the first stage of the system's characterisation, pork fat is also used to demonstrate the possibility to enhance the transmission between the antennas within the high loss environment. Those results propose the feasibility of implementing a high-frequency radar system for breast cancer detection.
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| Author: | Duy Hai Nguyen, Viktor KrozerORCiDGND, Jochen Moll, Gernot Zimmer |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-639509 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1049/ell2.12085 |
| ISSN: | 1350-911X |
| Parent Title (English): | Electronics letters |
| Publisher: | IET; Wiley |
| Place of publication: | Stevenage; Hoboken, NJ |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2021/01/20 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2021/01/20 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2022/03/22 |
| Volume: | 57 |
| Issue: | 5 |
| Page Number: | 3 |
| First Page: | 200 |
| Last Page: | 202 |
| Note: | This work has been supported by the project IndiThera (13GW0361D) through the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). |
| Note: | Open access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL. |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 494334770 |
| Institutes: | Physik |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 53 Physik / 530 Physik |
| 6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 62 Ingenieurwissenschaften / 620 Ingenieurwissenschaften und zugeordnete Tätigkeiten | |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0 |
