Balanced antipodal vivaldi antenna with dielectric director for near-field microwave imaging

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 58, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2318-2326

  Bourqui, Jeremie ^a   Okoniewski, Michal ^a   Fear, Elise C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antenna; microwave breast imaging; radar; ultrawideband (UWB)

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA APERTURE; ANTENNA DIRECTIVITY; ANTIPODAL VIVALDI ANTENNA; BREAST CANCER DETECTION; DIELECTRIC CONSTANT MATERIALS; LOW DISTORTION; LOW LOSS; MICROWAVE BREAST IMAGING; MICROWAVE IMAGING; NEAR-FIELD; SIMULATED RESULTS; TUMOR RESPONSE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; MICROWAVE SENSORS; MICROWAVES; NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS; RADAR; RADAR IMAGING; TUMORS; ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

ANTENNAS;

EID: 77954553266     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2010.2048844     Document Type: Article

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