Toward a wire medium endoscope for MRI imaging

This paper shows, numerically and experimentally, that imaging is realizable with a strongly curved wire medium. In a first part, simulation results obtained for various curvatures are presented and sub-wavelength imaging on a wide bandwidth is demonstrated. It is also shown that the collimation phenomenon remains very effective for structures having a cross-section corresponding to about a hundredth of the wavelength. In a second part, experimental results are shown for transmission of a medical image through a 63° curved wire medium in which the receiving antenna has been inserted.