A ROTATING ARRAY OF ANTENNAS FOR CONFOCAL MICROWAVE BREAST IMAGING

A planar array of four resistively loaded bow-tie anten- nas has been designed to detect and image early-stage malignant breast tumors by applying microwave confocal techniques. The finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method has been used to simulate the entire detec- tion problem. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 39: 307-311, 2003; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www. interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.11199

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