Development and test of a massive MIMO system for fast medical UWB imaging
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Helbig, M.; Koch, J. H.; Ley, S.; Herrmann, R.; Kmec, M.; Schilling, K.; Sachs, J.
- Source
- 2017 International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA) Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA), 2017 International Conference on. :1331-1334 Sep, 2017
- Subject
- Aerospace
Bioengineering
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Computing and Processing
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Photonics and Electrooptics
MIMO
Imaging
Time measurement
Hardware
Data acquisition
Antenna measurements
Antennas
- Language
This paper presents the hardware and software design of a massive MIMO system for fast UWB Imaging. The RF hardware is based on pseudo noise code (M-sequence) technology. The digital data acquisition is realized by means of a PXIe data streaming solution. This device includes in summary 24 transmitter and 48 receiver ports and, therefore, supports measurements of 1152 independent signal channels without any switch matrix. The maximum measurement rate for 48 channels in parallel is 500 IRF per second, for all 1152 channels 10 IRF per second are achievable. This performance makes it suitable for multichannel static imaging purposes as well as for very fast dynamic measurements.