Design of UWB planar antenna for microwave imaging systems

ICSPC 2007 Proceedings - 2007 IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 193-196

  Abbosh, Amin M ^a   Bialkowski, Marek E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Microwave imaging; Planar antenna; Ultra wideband

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL CAPACITY; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; MICROWAVES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ANTENNA ELEMENTS; COMPACT SIZES; DESIGN METHODS; HIGH FIDELITIES; MICROWAVE IMAGING; MICROWAVE IMAGING SYSTEMS; PLANAR ANTENNA; PLANAR MONOPOLE ANTENNAS; PULSE TRANSMISSIONS; RADIATION EFFICIENCIES; RETURN LOSS BANDWIDTHS; TIME DOMAIN RESPONSE; ULTRA WIDEBAND;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 60349098561     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSPC.2007.4728288     Document Type: Conference Paper

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