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Novel measurement technique to detect breast tumor based on the smallest form factor of UWB patch antenna

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2022

Fatima-Ezzahra Zerrad ,
Mohamed Taouzari ,
El Mostafa Makroum ,
Jamal Aoufi ,
Hanane Nasraoui ,
Fadima Gülsever Aksoy ,
Muharrem Karaaslan Open the ORCID record for Muharrem Karaaslan [Opens in a new window]  and
Md Tarikul Islam
Fatima-Ezzahra Zerrad
Affiliation:
Hassan First University of Settat, Faculty of Sciences and Techniques, Laboratory IMII, 26000, Settat, Morocco
Mohamed Taouzari
Affiliation:
Hassan First University of Settat, National School of Applied Sciences, Laboratory LISA, 26100, Berrechid, Morocco
El Mostafa Makroum
Affiliation:
Hassan First University of Settat, Faculty of Sciences and Techniques, Laboratory IMII, 26000, Settat, Morocco
Jamal Aoufi
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Aeronautical & Telecommunication, Mohammed VI, International Academy of Civil Aviation, Casablanca, Morocco
Hanane Nasraoui
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Aeronautical & Telecommunication, Mohammed VI, International Academy of Civil Aviation, Casablanca, Morocco
Fadima Gülsever Aksoy
Affiliation:
Department of Audiology, Cappadocia University School of Graduate Studies and Research, Nevşehir, Turkey
Muharrem Karaaslan*
Affiliation:
Electrical-Electronics Engineering, Iskenderun Technical University, Hatay, Turkey
Md Tarikul Islam
Affiliation:
Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
*
Author for correspondence: Muharrem Karaaslan, E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

A small ultra-wideband (UWB) patch antenna for microwave breast imaging (MWI) applications is shown off in this paper. However, to improve the antenna performance relating to the bandwidth (BW), the radiating element of the suggested antenna is modified by adding slits in the patch as well as the ground plane. The proposed prototype has a relatively small size of 20 × 19 × 1.6 mm3 and it accomplishes a return loss below −10 dB (S11< −10 dB) at an overall BW of 7 GHz (4–11 GHz) with more than 3 dBi realized gain. The antenna is designed and simulated by using a finite integration technique-based simulator. In this way, the characteristics of the fabricated antenna are measured to examine the antenna performance. Indeed, the fidelity factor of face-to-face (FtF) and side-by-side (SbS) scenarios are also noticed for the same frequency range. In the final analysis, a simulation model of the antennas, that operate as a transceiver, and a breast phantom model with tumor sample is proposed for detecting cancerous tumor cells within the breast. Hence, the proposed approach is suitable for UWB based MWI applications in tumor cell detection.

Keywords

Breast tumormicrowave imaging (MWI)ultra-wideband (UWB)
Type
Biomedical Applications
Information
International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies , Volume 15 , Issue 2 , March 2023 , pp. 227 - 235
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press in association with the European Microwave Association

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