Summary
International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation
2010
Session Number:4FD3
Session:
Number:4FD3-1
Mutual Coupling Compensation for Microwave Image Reconstruction
Fan Yang, Ananda S Mohan,
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Publication Date:2010/11/23
Online ISSN:2188-5079
Summary:
In this paper, we employ a 2-Dimensional heterogeneous FDTD breast model as shown in Fig.1, in which the skin reflection and clutter interference is calibrated by using the tumor-free template. The tumor-free template is only useful for numerical breast models to remove the skin reflection and hence we employ in this paper to verify the proposed mutual coupling compensation method. However, the scattering responses from breast tissues that include tumor still get affected by the interference and clutter from surrounding tissues even after subtracting out the tumor-free template. The 2D FDTD breast model that is employed in this paper is simulated with 22 antenna elements as shown in Fig. 1.