Antenna performance for ultra-wideband microwave imaging

RWS 2009 IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 522-525

  Bourqui, Jeremie ^a   Campbell, Mark A ^a   Sill, Jeff ^a   Shenouda, Maged ^a   Fear, Elise C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Microwave breast imaging; Ultra wideband antennas

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA DESIGN; ANTENNA PERFORMANCE; FREQUENCY RANGES; GAIN INSIGHT; IMMERSION MEDIUM; MICROWAVE BREAST IMAGING; ULTRA-WIDEBAND ANTENNAS; ULTRAWIDEBAND MICROWAVES;

BROADBAND NETWORKS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; MICROWAVES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB); WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 67650539008     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RWS.2009.4957403     Document Type: Conference Paper

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