Wearable Antennas: Breast Cancer Detection

Wearable Antennas Background And Overview

Wearable antennas have been a topic of interest for more than the past decade, and hundreds of scientific papers can be found on the subject. This large number of publications asks for some classification in order to get an overview of the trends and challenges. To this aim, an overview of wearable antennas according to the applications, antenna families, materials, and technology, is proposed.

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  Applications of wearable antennas:

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  Security (Military and Police) and Rescue Service Applications

Our main focus will be orientated towards wearable robust antennas intended to operate in various harsh environments. These antennas are mainly used for security and defense applications (Psychoudakis, Lee, Chen, & Volakis, 2010) and within different rescue services like firefighters (Hertleer et al., 2009), mountain and water rescue workers, (Figure 1), (Serra, Nepa, & Manara, 2011), (Corner, 2013).

Figure 1.

Illustrative examples of wearable antennas applications: (a) Army forces and (b) Firefighters