Design the Bowtie Antenna for the Detection of the Tumor in Microwave Tomography

Early breast cancer detection is an emerging field of
research as it can save the women infected by malignant tumors.
Microwave breast imaging is based on the electrical property contrast
between healthy and malignant tumor. This contrast can be detected
by use of microwave energy with an array of antennas that illuminate
the breast through coupling medium and by measuring the scattered
fields. In this paper, author has been presented the design and
simulation results of the bowtie antenna. This bowtie antenna is
designed for the detection of breast cancer detection.

• Muhammd Hassan Khalil
• Xu Jiadong

• Breast cancer detection
• Microwave Imaging
• Tomography.

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