TY  - JOUR
A1  - Nguyen, Duy Hai
A1  - Krozer, Viktor
A1  - Moll, Jochen
A1  - Zimmer, Gernot
T1  - Ultra-wideband on-body elliptical monopole antenna
T2  - Electronics letters
N2  - 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.
Y1  - 2021
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/63950
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-639509
SN  - 1350-911X
N1  - This work has been supported by the project IndiThera (13GW0361D) through the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
N1  - Open access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL.
VL  - 57
IS  - 5
SP  - 200
EP  - 202
PB  - IET; Wiley
CY  - Stevenage; Hoboken, NJ
ER  -