Aspects of antenna array configuration for UWB breast imaging

Proceedings of 6th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1737-1741

  Helbig, M ^a   Kmec, M ^a   Sachs, J ^a   Geyer, C ^b   Hilger, I ^b   Rimkus, G ^b  

^a ILMENAU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b JENA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

breast cancer detection; breast phantoms; electrically short antennas; M sequence radar technology; UWB

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER DETECTION; BREAST PHANTOM; ELECTRICALLY SHORT ANTENNAS; RADAR TECHNOLOGY; UWB;

ANTENNA ARRAYS; DISEASES; MIMO RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; RADAR IMAGING; ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 84862906999     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EuCAP.2012.6206594     Document Type: Conference Paper

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