A low-cost reconfigurable microwave transceiver using software-defined radar is proposed for medical imaging. The device, which uses generic software-defined radio (SDR) technology, paves the way to replace the costly and bulky vector network analyzer currently used in the research of microwave-based medical imaging systems. In this paper, calibration techniques are presented to enable the use of SDR technology in a biomedical imaging system. With the aid of an RF circulator, a virtual 1-GHz-wide pulse is generated by coherently adding multiple frequency spectrums together. To verify the proposed system for medical imaging, experiments are conducted using a circular scanning system and directional antenna. The system successfully detects small targets embedded in a liquid emulating the average properties of different human tissues.
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Marimuthu, J., Bialkowski, K. S., & Abbosh, A. M. (2016). Software-defined radar for medical imaging. IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, 64(2), 643–652. https://doi.org/10.1109/TMTT.2015.2511013
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