Ultra Wideband Antennas for Breast Cancer Detection

Abstract

Breast cancer is the most frequent cancer out of 100 different types of cancer detected in women globally, impacting 2.1 million every year and also records greatest number of causalities. Microwave breast imaging, which is nonintrusive and undisruptive to human, offers a promising alternative method when compared to earlier methods. Antenna plays a major role in microwave breast imaging process. A wide-ranging evaluation concerning the geometry, the frequency, the gain, the return loss and the materials adopted for the analysis and design of ultra wideband (UWB) antennas for breast cancer detection, is presented.