An active microwave sensor for near field imaging

Ahmed Faraz Mirza; Chan Hwang See; Isah Musa Danjuma; Rameez Asif; Raed A. Abd-Alhameed; James M. Noras; Roger W. Clarke; Peter S. Excell

doi:10.1109/JSEN.2017.2673961

An active microwave sensor for near field imaging

Ahmed Faraz Mirza, Chan Hwang See, Isah Musa Danjuma, Rameez Asif, Raed A. Abd-Alhameed, James M. Noras, Roger W. Clarke, Peter S. Excell

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Abstract

Near-field imaging using microwaves in medical applications is of great current interest for its capability and accuracy in identifying features of interest, in comparison with other known screening tools. This paper documents microwave imaging experiments on breast cancer detection, using active antenna tuning to obtain matching over a wide bandwidth. A simple phantom consisting of a plastic container with a low dielectric material emulating fatty tissue and a high dielectric constant object emulating a tumor is scanned between 4 and 8 GHz with a ultra-wideband microstrip antenna. Measurements indicate that this prototype microwave sensor is a good candidate for such imaging applications.

Original language	English
Article number	7862826
Pages (from-to)	2749-2757
Number of pages	9
Journal	IEEE Sensors Journal
Volume	17
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2017.2673961
Publication status	Published - 1 May 2017

Keywords

Cancer detection
microstrip antenna
microwave imaging
near field imaging
ultra-wideband

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