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Microstrip Patch Antenna with an Inverted T-Type Notch in the Partial Ground for Breast Cancer Detections

Nure Alam Chowdhury¹, Lulu Wang^2,*, Md Shazzadul Islam³, Linxia Gu¹, Mehmet Kaya^1,*

1 Department of Biomedical Engineering and Science, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL 32901, USA
2 Biomedical Device Innovation Center, Shenzhen Technology University, Shenzhen, 518118, China
3 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, International Islamic University Malaysia, Jalan Gombak, Selangor, 53100, Malaysia

* Corresponding Authors: Lulu Wang. Email: ,; Mehmet Kaya. Email:

Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences 2024, 138(2), 1301-1322. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmes.2023.030844

Received 26 April 2023; Accepted 27 July 2023; Issue published 17 November 2023

Abstract

This study designs a microstrip patch antenna with an inverted T-type notch in the partial ground to detect tumor cells inside the human breast. The size of the current antenna is small enough (18 mm × 21 mm × 1.6 mm) to distribute around the breast phantom. The operating frequency has been observed from 6–14 GHz with a minimum return loss of −61.18 dB and the maximum gain of current proposed antenna is 5.8 dBi which is flexible with respect to the size of antenna. After the distribution of eight antennas around the breast phantom, the return loss curves were observed in the presence and absence of tumor cells inside the breast phantom, and these observations show a sharp difference between the presence and absence of tumor cells. The simulated results show that this proposed antenna is suitable for early detection of cancerous cells inside the breast.

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