The Ultra Wide Band Radar System Parameters in Medical Application

Elmissaoui Taoufik, Soudani Nabila, Bouallegue Ridha

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DOI: 10.4236/jemaa.2011.35024                

Abstract

In this work, an Ultra Wide Band (UWB) radar system is proposed in an attempt to take a medical image of each hu-man body layer. In fact, this system consists of sending an electromagnetic pulse and analyzing the echo reflected by the human body tissue. In order to realize this system, the parameters which enable us to optimize the functionality of our radar are computed. Indeed, we fixed a frequency range, incident angle, pulse repetition frequency, the power and the antenna deployed by the UWB radar system in medicine. As well as, a human body model is presented in order to have practical results..

Keywords

UWB, Radar, Medical Imaging, Human Body Model

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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