Design of a UWB wide-slot antenna and a hemispherical array for breast imaging

David Gibbins; Maciej Klemm; Ian Craddock; Alan Preece; Jack Leendertz; Ralph Benjamin

Design of a UWB wide-slot antenna and a hemispherical array for breast imaging

David Gibbins^*, Maciej Klemm, Ian Craddock, Alan Preece, Jack Leendertz, Ralph Benjamin

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Abstract

A microstrip, fork fed, wide slot antenna, printed on high permittivity substrate has been developed for the transmission of ultra wide bandwidth (UWB) signals into the breast. The proposed antenna has been developed from an existing design using an in-house finite difference time domain (FDTD) program. The new antenna is shown to be of a compact size, has a wide impedance bandwidth and good transmission characteristics across the UWB frequency range, using a phantom equivalent to human breast tissue. The antenna is well-suited to its intended application in a breast-imaging array, and an array of 31 of these elements is presented herein for the first time.

Translated title of the contribution	Design of a UWB wide-slot antenna and a hemispherical array for breast imaging
Original language	English
Title of host publication	3rd European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, 2009 (EuCAP 2009), Berlin, Germany
Place of Publication	NEW YORK
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Pages	2967 - 2970
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4244-4753-4
Publication status	Published - 2009
Event	3rd European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP) - Berlin, Germany Duration: 1 Nov 2007 → …

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Conference	3rd European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP)
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Berlin
Period	1/11/07 → …

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wide-slot antenna
UWB
microstrip
breast cancer

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Gibbins, D., Klemm, M., Craddock, I., Preece, A., Leendertz, J., & Benjamin, R. (2009). Design of a UWB wide-slot antenna and a hemispherical array for breast imaging. In 3rd European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, 2009 (EuCAP 2009), Berlin, Germany (pp. 2967 - 2970). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/search/srchabstract.jsp?arnumber=5068228&isnumber=5067558&punumber=4977244&k2dockey=5068228@ieeecnfs&query=%28+%28%28gibbins%29%3Cin%3Emetadata+%29+%3Cand%3E+%28%28craddock%29%3Cin%3Emetadata+%29+%29&pos=0&access=no

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Gibbins, D, Klemm, M, Craddock, I, Preece, A, Leendertz, J & Benjamin, R 2009, Design of a UWB wide-slot antenna and a hemispherical array for breast imaging. in 3rd European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, 2009 (EuCAP 2009), Berlin, Germany. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), NEW YORK, pp. 2967 - 2970, 3rd European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), Berlin, Germany, 1/11/07. <http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/search/srchabstract.jsp?arnumber=5068228&isnumber=5067558&punumber=4977244&k2dockey=5068228@ieeecnfs&query=%28+%28%28gibbins%29%3Cin%3Emetadata+%29+%3Cand%3E+%28%28craddock%29%3Cin%3Emetadata+%29+%29&pos=0&access=no>

Design of a UWB wide-slot antenna and a hemispherical array for breast imaging. / Gibbins, David; Klemm, Maciej; Craddock, Ian et al.
3rd European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, 2009 (EuCAP 2009), Berlin, Germany. NEW YORK: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2009. p. 2967 - 2970.

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Design of a UWB wide-slot antenna and a hemispherical array for breast imaging

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