早期乳腺肿瘤的超宽带微波成像

通过采用时域有限差分方法探讨了一种收发天线分离的早期乳腺癌超宽带微波成像检测方案.在收发共用的超宽带天线设计中要求天线的终端反射不超过-120dB,而采用收发天线分离方案则避免了这一苛刻要求.采用共焦成像算法给出的成像结果表明,该方案亦可探测直径10mm以下的早期乳腺肿瘤.     

Square Monopole Antenna Application in Localization of Tumors in Three Dimensions by Confocal Microwave Imaging for Breast Cancer Detection: Experimental Measurement

In this paper, application of a designed antenna for microwave imaging is evaluated. In previous research, application of an UWB antenna for microwave imaging was investigated. To the best of the author’s knowledge, the designed antenna was the smallest UWB antenna designed at the time of publication, for breast cancer detection. The smaller size antennas can cause more clutter in the image while, on the other hand, make it possible to use more antennas in the array at the same surface. Therefore, the smaller size of the antenna makes microwave imaging more challenging. Simulation results showed successful detection of 10 mm and 5 mm tumors by 16 UWB antennas with the hemispherical arrangement. For signal processing, the Delay-Multiply-and-Sum Algorithm is used for image reconstruction. In this paper results of two experimental microwave imaging is presented. Two tumors at different locations are placed and microwave imaging is performed. The experimental proves that the designed antenna in an array of 16 antennas is capable of detecting the 5 mm tumor in different location.

     

Code-Division Multiple Transmission for High-Speed UWB Radar Imaging With an Antenna Array

The ultrawideband (UWB) radar is a promising high-resolution 3-D imaging technique for near targets. We have developed a high-speed imaging algorithm, SEABED, for a UWB pulse radar, a key real-time imaging technology. When the algorithm is applied to UWB, antenna scanning for data acquisition takes significantly longer than calculating the SEABED algorithm itself. This presents a serious problem for the real-time application of UWB radar. In this paper, we use pseudonoise (PN) sequences as the transmitting waveforms, while the original work on the SEABED algorithm assumed impulsive short-wave pulses. Using PN sequences enables us to simultaneously transmit signals with multiple antennas, eliminating the need to scan antennas. We demonstrate that the proposed radar system works well using random sequences to suppress direct waves, which is critical in achieving high speeds for imaging.      

超宽带天线时频域参数及设计方法

超宽带通信系统由于GHz级的瞬时脉冲带宽,天线的设计和用于天线性能比较的参数与传统窄带天线有很大区别.本文评述了天线的时域和频域性能参数,论述了超宽带天线设计的方法,最后给出两种典型应用的UWB天线,讨论了未来超宽带天线研究的技术和发展前景.     

UWB系统中天线性能对脉冲波形的影响

分析了超宽带无线系统中,天线在发射和接收过程中对基带脉冲信号波形的失真影响.采用了天线系统传递函数描述天线的辐射和接收特性,在暗室中对典型的超宽带印刷天线进行频域特性和时域特性的测量,给出了脉冲信号的辐射和接收过程.研究表明结合天线系统传递函数,可以设计出更符合FCC辐射功率掩蔽的脉冲信号,以及选取出波形保真系数最佳的本地模板信号,从而获得全局性能最优的超宽带系统.     

Ultra wideband antenna

Ultra wideband antennas are specifically designed to transmit and/or receive very short time durations of electromagnetic energy. It is well known that UWB antenna design remains the major factor in the progress of UWB technology. This article describes a study of conventional antennas and why they are not suitable for a UWB system.     

Microwave imaging via space-time beamforming for early detection of breast cancer

A method of microwave imaging via space-time (MIST) beamforming is proposed for detecting early-stage breast cancer. An array of antennas is located near the surface of the breast and an ultrawideband (UWB) signal is transmitted sequentially from each antenna. The received backscattered signals are passed through a space-time beamformer that is designed to image backscattered signal energy as a function of location. The beamformer spatially focuses the backscattered signals to discriminate against clutter and noise while compensating for frequency-dependent propagation effects. As a consequence of the significant dielectric-properties contrast between normal and malignant tissue, localized regions of large backscatter energy levels in the image correspond to malignant tumors. A data-adaptive algorithm for removing artifacts in the received signals due to backscatter from the skin-breast interface is also presented. The effectiveness of these algorithms is demonstrated using a variety of numerical breast phantoms based on anatomically realistic MRI-derived FDTD models of the breast. Very small (2 mm) malignant tumors embedded within the complex fibroglandular structure of the breast are easily detected above the background clutter. The MIST approach is shown to offer significant improvement in performance over previous UWB microwave breast cancer detection techniques based on simpler focusing schemes.     

Compact, Dual-Polarized UWB-Antenna, Embedded in a Dielectric

A compact dual-polarized antenna is described for ultrawideband (UWB) applications. The main features of the antenna, besides an ultrawidebandwidth are low cross-polarization and small dimensions. The feed of the antenna is based on the tapered slot antennas, enclosed in a dielectric. The new antenna concept, including the feed of the antenna for dual-polarization and its integration, is described in detail. Prototypes are shown and their performances are demonstrated, based on simulation and measurement results in frequency and time domain. The antenna prototype input match is better than $-10~{rm dB}$, a maximal gain of 10.5 dBi and a mean polarization decoupling of approximately 17 dB in the main beam direction in the 3.1–10.6 GHz UWB band are achieved. In the time domain a peak value of 0.4 m/ns, a full width at half maximum of 100 ps and a ringing of 145 ps are measured. With a maximum antenna diameter of 35 mm and 53 mm length this new antenna is also suited for UWB antenna arrays.      

超宽带脉冲波形的收发特性分析

采用时域电场积分方程和互易原理相结合的方法,探讨了已知接收信号的情况下,脉冲发送信号的波形,并研究了视距和非视距两种传播路径对脉冲收发信号的影响.在分析中,脉冲波形和天线几何形状可以任意.分别以蝴蝶形天线和超宽带槽式天线为例,并将计算结果与已知接收脉冲信号进行了比较.它们之间良好的一致性说明了所提方法的正确性和有效性.     

Study on frequency and impulse response of novel triple band notched UWB antenna in indoor environments

In this paper, a novel fork shaped structure backed plane is added to a simple UWB (ultra wideband) slot antenna to enhance the impedance bandwidth as well as create triple band notched characteristics for Impulse Radio (IR) UWB applications. This fork-shaped structure is connected to a rectangular radiating patch at four different points through the cylindrical pins. The proposed antenna with this fork-shaped structure shows a very wide impedance bandwidth which spans from 2.5 up to more than 20 GHz and offers triple band-notched properties in WiMAX, WLAN and X-band downlink satellite communication spectrums. Moreover, the proposed antenna shows good radiation features such as gain, radiation efficiency and radiation patterns. A comprehensive investigation on the antenna time domain performance is also performed throughout the paper, and the effect of the proposed antenna on the two popular excitation pulses including modulated Gaussian (MG) and square root raised cosine (SRRC) pulses is fully investigated. A frequency-domain measurement setup is applied to measure time domain characteristics of the proposed antenna. Also, the realistic indoor multipath propagation channel characteristics when the proposed antennas are applied as the transmitter and receiver antennas are studied. Sub-band divided ray tracing method is used to simulate channel characteristics.     

超宽带时域近距离高分辨ISAR成像

近距离目标超高分辨率微波成像技术在安全检测、非破坏性控制、生物医学等领域中有着非常重要的应用价值和广阔的应用前景。该文利用基于窄脉冲形式的超宽带时域雷达系统研究近距离目标的高分辨率ISAR成像,给出了仿真和实测结果。利用转台旋转目标,基于超宽带脉冲源和超宽带收发天线以及高性能取样示波器,配以同步触发脉冲和自行研发的数据采集软件,搭建了该时域雷达实验系统,提出了准确获取目标回波信息的实验条件,和实现回波延时精确校正的误差补偿方法。并针对采样时间窗内的杂波干扰,讨论了时域后向投影算法(Back Projection,BP)与背景对消技术相结合的成像算法,实现了分辨率为8 mm的近距离目标的成像,准确地反映了目标的位置、形状和大小等信息。     

Miniaturization of UWB Antennas and its Influence on Antenna-Transceiver Performance in Impulse-UWB Communication

In this paper, a co-design methodology and the effect of antenna miniaturization in an impulse UWB system/transceiver is presented. Modified small-size printed tapered monopole antennas (PTMA) are designed in different scaling sizes. In order to evaluate the performance and functionality of these antennas, the effect of each antenna is studied in a given impulse UWB system. The UWB system includes an impulse UWB transmitter and two kinds of UWB receivers are considered, one based on correlation detection and one on energy detection schemes. A tunable low-power Impulse UWB transmitter is designed and the benefit of co-designing it with the PTMA antenna is investigated for the 3.1–10.6 GHz band. A comparison is given between a 50 $\Omega $ design and a co-designed version. Our antenna/transceiver co-design methodology shows improvement in both transmitter efficiency and whole system performance. The simulation results show that the PTMA antenna and its miniaturized geometries are suitable for UWB applications.     

基于多天线辅助估计的高精度UWB快速捕获算法研究

本文提出了一种基于多天线辅助估计的UWB(超宽带)快速捕获算法,利用UWB信号的循环平稳特性,将接收信号与它自身延迟一个信息位产生的模板相关,应用最大似然方法就可得到一个粗略的同步时间估计,在充分利用线性天线阵空间分集增益的情况下,这种估计相当准确。在此基础上继续进行精确同步,直到捕获任一符号位的第一帧第一个到达脉冲。文中采用流图法给出了本算法平均捕获时间的闭式解。理论分析和计算机模拟表明,该算法与同等硬件复杂程度和同等捕获精度的其他捕获方法相比可明显地缩短平均捕获时间。     

陷波平面超宽带天线的研究进展

随着对超宽带平面天线的研究和广泛应用,在超宽带天线中实现对其他无线通信设备特别是WLAN设备的干扰抑制成为近年来的研究热点。介绍了陷波特性超宽带天线的技术背景,对近几年国内外关于陷波超宽带天线的最新研究成果进行了分析总结,研究成果对超宽带天线的设计和频带的抑制具有一定的指导作用。最后对无线通信中超宽带天线的发展趋势进行了展望。     

空时编码在单天线UWB通信系统中的应用

超宽带(UWB)适用于基带多用户通信、战场无线通信和高数据率多媒体业务等通信系统,其数据传输速率高、功耗低、多径分辨能力强。但超宽带脉冲信号时域支撑区极窄,信道为密集多径,将空时编码技术引入超宽带通信系统,能够提升无线通信系统的信道容量与抗误比特率性能。在对UWB空时分组编码系统模型性能理论分析的基础上,对空时分组码在单天线UWB系统应用方案与UWB空时分层码方案进进行了简要介绍,利用Matlab对IEEEUWB信道模型进行仿真,提出了空时编码在UWB通讯技术中应用后提升短距高速率无线通信的性能的结论 。     

散射矩阵同时测量的一种新方法

该文提出了散射矩阵同时测量的一种新方法频域分割法。这种方法的基本原理是:发射时水平极化天线和垂直极化天线同时发射两个中心频率不同、调频斜率相同的线性调频信号,中心频率的差值等于或略大于信号带宽,接收时上述的两个天线同时接收,那么每个天线接收的回波是两个不同极化组合回波的叠加,我们利用两个回波信号频谱的差异,将之分离,从而实现散射矩阵的同时测量。这种方法避免了测量不同时以及极化开关造成的极化耦合而引起的测量误差,与散射矩阵同时测量的信号编码法相比,更容易实现高极化隔离度。     

Pre-Coding for MIMO Systems in Frequency-Selective Fading Channels

Multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems showed good utilization of channel characteristics. In MIMO systems multiple signals are transmitted using multiple antenna system. This provides each receiver the combined signals and hence, array processing techniques helps in reducing the effects of interference among them. In this paper we devise the use of pre-coded MIMO system to reduce the effects of frequency selectivity and hence, enhance the systems capacity and/or reduce the bit error rate. In this technique we introduce a temporal pre-coder on each antenna signal; this creates a deterministic multi-path signals similar to signals received when the channel is multi-path fading channel. The same antenna signal will arrive at each receiver forming orthogonal sub-space and the receiver will be simple add and delay of the received signals. Ant colony optimization is used in this paper to select the best pre-code. Results showed that we can diagonalize the channel matrix and practically eliminate the interference for frequency selective fading channel. Simulation of two transmitting two receiving antennas pre-coded MIMO system showed that the capacity can be doubled.     

Conformal double exponentially tapered slot antenna (DETSA) on LCP for UWB applications

We discuss the use of a double exponentially tapered slot antenna (DETSA) fabricated on flexible liquid crystal polymer (LCP) as a candidate for ultrawideband (UWB) communications systems. The features of the antenna and the effect of the antenna on a transmitted pulse are investigated. Return loss and E and H plane radiation pattern measurements are presented in several frequencies covering the whole ultra wide band. The return loss remains below -10 dB and the shape of the radiation pattern remains fairly constant in the whole UWB range (3.1 to 10.6 GHz). The main lobe characteristic of the radiation pattern remains stable even when the antenna is significantly conformed. The major effect of the conformation is an increase in the cross polarization component amplitude. The system: transmitter DETSA-channel receiver DETSA is measured in frequency domain and shows that the antenna adds very little distortion on a transmitted pulse. The distortion remains small even when both transmitter and receiver antennas are folded, although it increases slightly.     

UWB天线的宽带化技术及其发展

在现代通信技术中,为了实现通信保密、排除干扰、提高通信效率等,超宽带系统得到了大力发展,然而,在一定程度上却受制于系统中超宽带天线的阻抗带宽。详细介绍了展宽天线阻抗带宽的4种方法,包括渐变阻抗方法、分形几何方法、微带天线开槽方法和非频变结构方法,其中分形几何方法由于其几何结构的自相似性使得其贴片电流分布具有自相似性,从而导致天线的多频点谐振,有效拓展了天线带宽。上述4种天线尽管作用原理互不相同,但在超宽带天线的工程应用中,研究者可将这些方法单独或同时应用于天线结构设计,使得天线既能保持良好的方向性和增益等性能,又能获得较大带宽。     

Reactance domain MUSIC algorithm for electronically steerable parasitic array radiator

Conventional adaptive array antenna processing must observe signals on all of the array antenna elements. However, because the low-cost electronically steerable parasitic array radiator (ESPAR) antenna has only a single-port output, none of the signals on the antenna's parasitic elements can be observed. A direct application of most of the algorithms for the conventional adaptive array antenna is impractical. In this paper, A technique of estimation of direction-of-arrivals (DoAs) is proposed for the ESPAR antenna. This technique is based on the modified MUltiple SIgnal Classification (MUSIC) algorithm. The correlation matrix used in the MUSIC algorithm is estimated from the signal received through the single-port output of the ESPAR antenna as it switches over a set of antenna patterns. Simulation results show that DoAs can be estimated by the reactance domain MUSIC algorithm for ESPAR antennas. Furthermore, the statistical performance on estimation error variance of the reactance domain MUSIC estimator is analyzed and compared with the Crame/spl acute/r-Rao lower bound. Analytic and empirical results show that high-resolution DoAs estimation can be achieved by using the reactance domain MUSIC algorithm for ESPAR antennas.