Design of Ultra wideband Microwave Antenna Array for Detection of Breast Cancer Tumours

2 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS 4 LIST OF TABLES 5 LIST OF FIGURES 6 NOMENCLATURE 7 INTRODUCTION 8 LITERATURE REVIEW 13 STATEMENT OF PROBLEM AND METHODOLOGY OF SOLUTION 17 SIMULATION DESIGN PROCEDURES 20 EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN PROCEDURES 24 RESULTS 31 Simulations 31 Size 59 Location 78 Experiments 115 DISCUSSION 120 CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 123 APPENDIX 124 REFERENCES 126 VITAE 130