@inproceedings{d504e5d60d22408a964263ad3a764a3f,
title = "Mobile-controlled portable robotic measurement setup for microwave imaging diagnosis",
abstract = "This paper presents a low cost microwave system for medical diagnostics and treatment. The system consists of a wirelessly controlled automated data acquisition part using National Instrument (NI) MyRIO board and targets a portable microwave imaging (MWI) applications of the human body using a low cost robotic arm. The setup consists of a pair of Vivaldi antenna elements that act as transmitters and receivers separately, a vector network analyzer (VNA) and an CrustCrawler Robotic arm. The pair of Vivaldi antenna elements are held by a robotic-arm that scans in 3-dimensions with a user-defined sample program in LabVIEW-based graphic user interface (GUI) targeting the interested part of the human body using a WebCam based monitoring camera. A two port VNA sends and receives signals at each sample point and transfers the data back to a personal computer (PC) for further microwave signal and image processing. We have developed a scanning algorithm customised to our hardware setup. Analysis is carried out that show the efficiency of the algorithm in achieving the specific range and position requirements.",
keywords = "Data Acquistion System, Mircowave Imaging Diagnosis, Mobile-controled Robotic Arm, Vivaladi Antenna",
author = "Fengzhou Wang and Xiaofan Wu and Tughrul Arslan",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016 IEEE.; 2016 Loughborough Antennas and Propagation Conference, LAPC 2016 ; Conference date: 14-11-2016 Through 15-11-2016",
year = "2017",
month = jan,
day = "9",
doi = "10.1109/LAPC.2016.7807523",
language = "English",
series = "2016 Loughborough Antennas and Propagation Conference, LAPC 2016",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers",
booktitle = "2016 Loughborough Antennas and Propagation Conference, LAPC 2016",
address = "United States",
}