Comparison of Far Field and Near Field Values of Skin Tissue Measured Using Microstrip Antenna Structure

Abstract

Pathology science has an important place in the medical field. Its importance is increasing day by day because it evaluates the information about diseases at the cellular level. The reports prepared from the tissue samples examined by the pathologists contain very important information for both the patient and the doctor. This information may include the level of the disease and the mode of treatment. Therefore, the time to reach the pathological reports is important. Microstrip patch antennas are used for various purposes in the biomedical field. In this study, the far and near field outputs of the evaluations of the pathological tissue samples were tested with the microstrip patch antenna structure. For this, a microstrip patch antenna with an operating frequency of 2.45 GHz was used. Pathological tissue samples were modeled in the free-space measurement technique created using the antenna structure. The electric field and scattering parameter values obtained as a result of the simulations using the Ansys HFSS program were evaluated for the near and far field. When the evaluation results are examined, it has been shown that near field measurements for electric field data and far field measurements for scattering parameter data are more efficient. © 2022 IEEE.