A comparison of a wide-slot and a stacked patch antenna for the purpose of breast cancer detection

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 665-674

  Gibbins, David ^a   Klemm, MacIej ^a   Craddock, Ian J ^a   Leendertz, Jack A ^a   Preece, Alan ^a   Benjamin, Ralph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Microwave radar; Ultrawideband (UWB) antennas

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; BREAST CANCER DETECTION; DETECTION SCHEME; EXCELLENT PERFORMANCE; FREQUENCY RANGES; FRONT SURFACES; INPUT AND RADIATION CHARACTERISTICS; LOW LEVEL; MICROWAVE RADARS; PATCH ANTENNA; STACKED PATCH ANTENNAS; STATIC ARRAYS; ULTRA-WIDEBAND ANTENNAS; UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL; UWB ANTENNA; UWB RADARS; WIDE-SLOT; WIDE-SLOT ANTENNAS;

ANTENNA ARRAYS; BROADBAND NETWORKS; MICROWAVES; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; RADIOTHERAPY; SLOT ANTENNAS;

MICROWAVE ANTENNAS;

EID: 77749343146     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2009.2039296     Document Type: Article

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