Affiliations: [a] Innov’Com Laboratory, SUP’COM, University of Carthage, Tunis, Tunisia
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Corresponding author: Mondher Labidi, Innov’Com Laboratory, SUP’COM, University of Carthage, Tunis, Tunisia. E-mail: mondher.labidi@supcom.tn
Abstract: In this paper, a small antenna is proposed to diagnose skin sarcoma at an embryonic stage. The antenna has an area of 30.54 × 15.27 mm2 and resonates at 1429 MHz with a reflection coefficient of −17.64 dB. The structure consists of a 35 μm copper sheet etched on a 1.6 mm FR-4 substrate. The diagnosis is based on the resonance frequency shift, and the SAR (Specific Absorption Rate) variation when the antenna is positioned on malignant tissue. For the simulations, a three-layer body phantom (skin, fat, muscle), and a half-sphere tumor phantom were considered. Simulations of the antenna performances showed that for a tumor of 100 μm, the resonant frequency, and the SAR decrease by 2 MHz, and 1.09 mW/Kg, respectively. In addition to sarcoma detection, the antenna’s 3.6 dBi gain allows for 124.47 m biomedical communication links in a complex environment.
Keywords: Small antenna, early cancer diagnosis, skin sarcoma, frequency shift detection, scale of cancer diagnosis
