Design of I-shaped dual C-slotted rectangular microstrip patch antenna (I-DCSRMPA) for breast cancer tumor detection

Abstract

Cancer is the uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells; if not detected and treated at the early stage cancer would become fatal. Breast cancer remains the second leading cause of cancer induced deaths, despite the advances taken place in treatment methods. The incidence of breast cancer in India is on the rise that one in 22 women in India is likely to suffer from breast cancer during her lifetime. One in eight women is affected by this dangerous disease in America. Cancer always a major problem to the world however various methods are available. Some of methods for breast cancer detection are X-ray mammography, MRI and ultrasound. However, they have some limitations to detect the breast cancer but microwave imaging is a safer method as compared to the X-ray. In this Paper cancer tumour in the breast is detected by I-shaped dual C-slotted microstrip patch antenna is designed for 10 GHz. The proposed antenna has a bandwidth of 7.51 dB covering the frequency range 4.9–7.89 GHz, the return loss below − 37 dB and antenna gain of 2.45 dB. The flexible this patch antenna holds good efficiency of 87.1%.