Design of Flexible Antenna Array for Early Diabetic Foot Detection

Abstract

Diabetic foot ulcers are the common complication of poorly controlled diabetes, forming as a result of skin tissue breaking down and exposing the layers underneath. The paper deals about designing the flexible array antenna for diagnosing the diabetic foot in the early stage itself which will reduce future complications .To design the antenna we use ADS software and the antenna parameters such as gain, radiation pattern, directivity in different frequency can be analyzed with the use of software itself. I.INTRODUCTION Diabetic foot ulcers are the common complication of poorly controlled diabetes, forming as a result of skin tissue breaking down and exposing the layers underneath .There are several problems with current practices in detecting diabetic foot ulcers. A clinician wound assessment process is based on visual examination. He/she describes the wound by its physical dimensions and the color of the tissues, providing important indications of the wound type and the stage of healing. The visual assessment does not produce objective measurements and quantitative parameters of the wound. Though there are many techniques in the modern civilian and industrial automated environments like MRI, Gallium scan etc…they are very costly on the other side they do not provide accuracy .Even if a single cell is left undetected they may spread to wider parts so higher accuracy and early detection helps to reduce the need of future complications. Today people require more and more wireless communication systems. To meet the public and industrial demands, the wireless communication as the RFID and wearable devices evolves with constantly improved design techniques. In this way, a recent green and organic inkjet technology was emerged to meet challenging ecological and lowered cost. Thanks to the challenging performances in terms of cost and outstanding compactness, the electronic flexible technology was recently adopted in the various fields of applications as RFID, WLANtechnology and medicalengineering. The flexible RF/microwave circuit and antenna design is currently developed and promisingly advantageous in terms of costs.Therefore, the flexible antenna design topicattracts the attention of design and research engineers.In this project we design a flexible array antenna using the ADS software to detect the diabetic foot ulcer in advance which helps in early diagnosis and treatment.

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