{"title":"Motion detection In-Vivo by multi-channel ultrawideband radar","authors":"O. Kosch, F. Thiel, F. Seifert, J. Sachs, M. Hein","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340451","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340451","url":null,"abstract":"Remote sensing of body and inner organ motion by ultra-wideband radar is a promising alternative to electrocardiogram (ECG) based gating of several diagnostic imaging and image guided therapy modalities, e.g. cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and high energy particle therapy. In this paper, we present a noncontact approach for the detection of cardiac mechanics by means of multi-channel UWB radar sensors. To extract the required position information from UWB radar for cardiac MRI the decomposition of respiratory and cardiac motions is performed by applying a blind-source separation method based on several time-delayed second-order correlation matrices to decompose the UWB signals and extract movements of cardiac and respiratory landmarks. We compared the time evolution of these landmarks to the signals of simultaneously measured ECG's demonstrating the strong correlation between cardiac UWB and ECG signals. Furthermore, we implemented a fast 1D MR imaging method in a 3 tesla MR scanner to extract true inner organ landmark movements in real time and present these comparisons with simultaneously acquired multi-channel UWB data.","PeriodicalId":260071,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114876590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Three centuries of UWB antenna development","authors":"H. Schantz","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340483","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340483","url":null,"abstract":"This paper provides a historical overview of ultrawideband (UWB) antennas. Early radio was narrowband in conception, but UWB in practice due to various technical limitations. Oliver Lodge pioneered UWB antenna engineering in the nineteenth century with his invention of both the biconical and bowtie antennas, and J.C. Bose demonstrated the first horn antennas in 1897. These nineteenth century spark-gap UWB antennas were largely forgotten until the 1930s and 1940s when advances in RF technology made short wavelength compact UWB antennas more practical. For lack of wide-scale implementation, many of these mid-century designs were forgotten in turn. By the closing decades of the twentieth century, UWB antennas were still considered “the main limiting factor of a UWB system.” A third century of development kicked off (more-or-less) with the FCC's authorization of UWB wireless systems in 2002. A host of antenna designers re-discovered or reinvented twentieth century designs and advanced the UWB antenna arts further with innovations like compact planar implementations, UWB patch antennas, embedded UWB antennas, and spectral-filtered or frequency-notched designs. The three centuries of UWB antenna development have been characterized by the failure of successive generations of antenna designers to benefit from the lessons of earlier pioneers.","PeriodicalId":260071,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131936865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the use of spiral antennas in ultra-wideband communication links","authors":"M. Elmansouri, D. Filipović","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340485","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340485","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses the pulse distortion of two-arm spiral antennas in ultra-wideband (UWB) communication links and mitigation thereof by modifying the antenna so that phase and amplitude distortions are accounted for by the aperture itself. A new spiral topology, named power-spiral, is introduced to reduce the effect of the phase distortions. When combined with classical Archimedean spiral, this antenna has simultaneously high-quality time and frequency domain performance. To compensate the amplitude distortion resulting from frequency-dependent path loss of a UWB communication channel, lens-loaded spiral and spiral array are investigated. Obtained results clearly show the time-domain performance improvement with all studied approaches.","PeriodicalId":260071,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband","volume":"146 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131820911","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Compressed Sensing for UWB medical radar applications","authors":"T. Thiasiriphet, M. Ibrahim, J. Lindner","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340444","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340444","url":null,"abstract":"UWB has been a very attractive choice for medical radar and localization applications. The use of UWB signals can provide distance measurements with very high accuracy but a big challenge is caused by high attenuation resulting in low signal-to-noise ratios. It is well-known that analog-to-digital conversion is practically not feasible for UWB. Compressed Sensing is an emerging concept which potentially could solve this problem. The weakness of this concept is to handle noisy signals. We propose an implementation strategy to overcome this problem. The hardware implementation and complexity are also taken into account. Simulation results show significant improvements compared to conventional algorithms for both ideal and measured signals.","PeriodicalId":260071,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128596674","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Framework of belief condensation filtering and deterministic discrete filters","authors":"S. Mazuelas, Yuan Shen, M. Win","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340469","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340469","url":null,"abstract":"Inferring a sequence of variables from observations is a prevalent task in a multitude of applications. However, in some nonlinear or non-Gaussian scenarios, traditional techniques such as Kalman filters (KFs) and particle filters (PFs) fail to provide satisfactory performance. Moreover, there is a lack of a unifying framework for the analysis and development of different filtering techniques. In this paper, we present a general framework for filtering that allows to formulate an optimality criterium leading to the concept of belief condensation filtering (BCF). Moreover, we develop discrete BCFs that are optimal under such framework. Finally, simulation results are presented for the important filtering task that arises in ultrawide bandwidth (UWB) ranging. We show that BCF can obtain accuracies approaching the theoretical benchmark but with a smaller complexity than PFs.","PeriodicalId":260071,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132400837","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Helbig, M. Hein, R. Herrmann, M. Kmec, J. Sachs, K. Schilling, F. Clemente, I. Hilger, K. Dahlke, P. Rauschenbach
{"title":"Experimental active antenna measurement setup for UWB breast cancer detection","authors":"M. Helbig, M. Hein, R. Herrmann, M. Kmec, J. Sachs, K. Schilling, F. Clemente, I. Hilger, K. Dahlke, P. Rauschenbach","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340449","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340449","url":null,"abstract":"Imaging by microwave UWB radar represents a promising technique for early-stage breast cancer detection. We present an experimental measurement setup for breast phantom trials based on M-sequence radar technology and active small antennas (interfacial dipoles). This approach combines short impulse responses, sufficient fidelity and very small antenna dimensions and allows for array construction with an adequate number of antennas around the breast. The presented imaging results illustrate the performance of the method.","PeriodicalId":260071,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129649383","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Stephane Mebaley Ekome, G. Baudoin, M. Villegas, J. Schwoerer
{"title":"Narrowband interference mitigation in UWB communication with energy detector","authors":"Stephane Mebaley Ekome, G. Baudoin, M. Villegas, J. Schwoerer","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340470","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340470","url":null,"abstract":"Ultra wideband (UWB) is a reliable candidate for supporting a physical layer in Body Area Networks (BAN) and because of their wideband, UWB systems can have their performance degraded due to the interference from narrowband transmission. Methods must be developed to protect UWB systems that are exposed to this negative impact of the narrowband interference (NBI). Most proposed solutions have been developed for coherent and transmitted-reference receivers but a very few of these principles are eligible with the noncoherent energy detector (ED) receiver. The work presented thereafter aims at proposing a novel method to identify and mitigate the narrowband interference in ultra wideband transmissions. We use an efficient algorithm with a modified but still simple energy detector, and the performance of the method is evaluated by means of computer simulations.","PeriodicalId":260071,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130471423","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A reconfigurable impulse radio transmitter","authors":"A. Ott, C. Eisner, T. Eibert","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340465","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340465","url":null,"abstract":"To investigate impulse radio (IR) communication transceivers, bit error rate (BER) measurements are typically performed by connecting an arbitrary waveform generator and a digitizing oscilloscope. In this paper a reconfigurable software defined radio (SDR) transmitter specifically designed for IR communication tests is presented. The prototype offers the possibility to transmit arbitrary 4-ary modulated impulses with 1 GHz bandwidth over four channels in the frequency range from 6 GHz-10 GHz. For generation of intermediate frequency (IF) signals a subsampling concept with a multi-Nyquist digital to analog converter (DAC) and a field programmable gate array (FPGA) has been employed. Pseudo-coherent signals are synthesized at radio frequency (RF) by utilizing a mixer with a local oscillator (LO) frequency locked to the LO of the DAC. A comparison of theoretically derived signals and measurements shows that both are in close agreement.","PeriodicalId":260071,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130062237","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reflectarray antennas for space applications","authors":"A. Elsherbeni, P. Nayeri, Fan Yang","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340389","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340389","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, the advantages and recent developments of reflectarray antennas for space applications are reviewed. Basic requirements for space antennas, and the limitations and challenges of conventional designs are discussed. Various advantages of reflectarray antennas over reflectors and phased array antennas are reviewed and it is shown that reflectarray antennas can be a suitable low-cost choice for the new generation of space antennas.","PeriodicalId":260071,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122200057","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Particle swarm intelligence use in feasible design target space of a microwave transistor for a wide-band output-stage requirements","authors":"S. Demirel, F. Güneş, H. Torpi","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340403","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340403","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, the feasible design target space is determined for the output stage-requirements of an ultra-wide band low-noise front end design using a single transistor. For this purpose, a performance characterization of a microwave transistor is achieved to deliver maximum output power subject to the required noise figure Freq≥ Fmin, using particle swarm intelligence as a comparatively simple and efficient optimization tool. To achieve this, transducer gain of the transistor is maximized as satisfying the physical realization conditions in the case that the input is terminated for the required noise figure Freq≥ Fmin and the output matched. Thus, the compromise relations between the maximum gain GTmax and the noise figure F are obtained as the function of the operation frequency and/or input VSWR taking the bias condition (VDS, IDS) as parameters together with the corresponding source ZS and load ZL terminations for a selected transistor as compared with the analytical counterparts obtained using the microwave, linear circuit and noise theories and an excellent agreement is observed. This type of representation of performance can provide a higher tool to overview all possible designs in cases where output power or noise figure is at a premium.","PeriodicalId":260071,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128486872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}