Narrow-band Circularly Polarized Antenna for Medical Microwave Imaging and Health Monitoring Applications

Authors

  • Bilal Guetaf Laboratoire des Télécommunications-LT Département d’Electronique et Télécommunications, Faculté des Sciences et de la Technologie Université 8 Mai 1945 Guelma, BP 401, Guelma, 24000, Algeria
  • Abdelhalim Chaabane Laboratoire des Télécommunications-LT Département d’Electronique et Télécommunications, Faculté des Sciences et de la Technologie Université 8 Mai 1945 Guelma, BP 401, Guelma, 24000, Algeria
  • Abderrezak Khalfallaoui Laboratoire des Télécommunications-LT Département d’Electronique et Télécommunications, Faculté des Sciences et de la Technologie Université 8 Mai 1945 Guelma, BP 401, Guelma, 24000, Algeria
  • Hussein Attia Interdisciplinary Research Center for Communication Systems and Sensing, and Electrical Engineering Department King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, 31261, Saudi Arabia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13052/2023.ACES.J.380607

Keywords:

Breast tumor and brain stroke detection, circularly polarized printed monopole antenna (CPPMA), industrial scientific and medical (ISM) band, medical microwave imaging and health monitoring, phantom models, wearable antenna

Abstract

In this paper, a circularly polarized printed monopole antenna (CPPMA) is proposed for medical microwave imaging and health monitoring applications. The proposed CPPMA is optimized to operate at the Industrial, Scientific and Medical (ISM) band. A prototype of the designed antenna is fabricated and printed on the low-cost FR-4 substrate that has a compact size of 34 × 28 × 1.5 mm3. The simulated results indicate that the designed CPPMA operates between 2.425 GHz and 2.475 GHz while the measured results range between 2.32 GHz and 2.515 GHz. The designed CPPMA also reveals a circular polarization performance at 2.45 GHz (2.4386 GHz - 2.4633 GHz). The suitability of CPPMA for microwave imaging is confirmed by checking its aptitudes to detect the presence of breast tumors and brain strokes. A great detection capability is achieved for breast tumors and brain strokes of various sizes inserted at different positions with a high sensitivity to changes or anomalies in the dielectric properties of human tissues. In addition, the usefulness of the proposed CPPMA for wearable application is justified experimentally. Excellent agreement is achieved between the simulated results and the measured ones.

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Author Biographies

Bilal Guetaf, Laboratoire des Télécommunications-LT Département d’Electronique et Télécommunications, Faculté des Sciences et de la Technologie Université 8 Mai 1945 Guelma, BP 401, Guelma, 24000, Algeria

Bilal Guetaf is currently a Ph.D. Student at the University 8 Mai 1945 Guelma, Algeria. He is a member of the Telecommunications Laboratory, University 8 Mai 1945 Guelma. His main research interests include: antennas for medical microwave imaging, wearable antennas, implantable antennas, and biomedical engineering.

Abdelhalim Chaabane, Laboratoire des Télécommunications-LT Département d’Electronique et Télécommunications, Faculté des Sciences et de la Technologie Université 8 Mai 1945 Guelma, BP 401, Guelma, 24000, Algeria

Abdelhalim Chaabane received a Ph.D. degree and completed his habilitation in electronics in 2017 and 2020, respectively. He is currently an associate professor and the Director of the Telecommunications Laboratory at the University 8 Mai 1945 Guelma, Algeria. His current research areas of interest include: fractal antennas, MIMO antenna systems, reconfigurable antennas, millimeter-wave high-gain and wide-band antennas, UWB applications and radar, and biomedical engineering.

Abderrezak Khalfallaoui, Laboratoire des Télécommunications-LT Département d’Electronique et Télécommunications, Faculté des Sciences et de la Technologie Université 8 Mai 1945 Guelma, BP 401, Guelma, 24000, Algeria

Abderrezak Khalfallaoui received a Ph.D. degree in Electronics from the University of Littoral Côte d’Opale, France, in 2010 at the Laboratory of Materials and Components for Electronics (LEMCEL). In 2011, he joined the Telecommunications Laboratory at the University 8 Mai 1945 Guelma, Algeria where he is an Assistant Professor. His research interests are design and processing of radio-frequency integrated circuits, tunable ferroelectric devices, and their applications in microwaves. Since 2020, his research has been on antennas, multiband antennas, and ground-penetrating radar antennas.

Hussein Attia, Interdisciplinary Research Center for Communication Systems and Sensing, and Electrical Engineering Department King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, 31261, Saudi Arabia

Hussein Attia received a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, in 2011. He worked as a Research Engineer with the Coding and Signal Transmission Laboratory at the University of Waterloo from March 2011 to July 2013. He was granted a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, from August 2014 to July 2015. He was also a Visiting Scholar at the University of Quebec (INRS), from August 2015 to December 2015 and from June 2017 to August 2017. He is currently an Associate Professor and the Director of the Applied Electromagnetics Laboratory at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM). He is currently an Associate Editor for IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters and IEEE ACCESS. He has published about 100 journaln and conference papers. His research interests include biomedical engineering, microwave sensors, millimeter-wave antennas, analytical techniques for electromagnetic modeling, and metamaterials. Dr. Attia has received several awards, including a full Ph.D. scholarship from the Ministry of Higher Education, Egypt (2007-2011), the University of Waterloo Graduate Scholarship for excellence in research and coursework in 2009, and a certificate in University Teaching from the University of Waterloo in 2010. He was a finalist in the Best Paper Competition of the 2011 IEEE AP-S International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation. In 1999 he was ranked first among all B.Sc. electronics and communication engineering students at Zagazig University, Egypt.

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Published

2023-06-30

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B. . Guetaf, A. . Chaabane, A. . Khalfallaoui, and H. . Attia, “Narrow-band Circularly Polarized Antenna for Medical Microwave Imaging and Health Monitoring Applications”, ACES Journal, vol. 38, no. 06, pp. 424–438, Jun. 2023.

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