Numerical Modeling of a Metamaterial Biosensor for Cancer Tissues Detection

Abstract

In this paper, the numerical design and simulate a biosensor to detect tumors and cancerous tissues by using metamaterial structures in the microwave regime are presented. The presented structure consists of a microstrip transmission line and a split ring resonator (SRR) that form a bandpass filter and has a unique resonance frequency. Given that cancerous tissues have larger volumes of water than healthy tissues. As a result, they have a higher dielectric coefficient and conductivity which use for healthy tissues detection. By placing biological samples on SRR, its dielectric constant changes, therefore, the resonance frequency of the system changes. We can measure the types of biological tissues by measuring these changes. We used the Debye model to simulate the muscles. Also, the benefits of this biosensor are easy to use and operation, but they have lower sensitivity than terahertz biosensors. The minimum resolution for samples under test in this biosensor is 10 MHz.

Keywords

• biosensor
• microstrip line
• split ring resonator
• cancerous tissues
• debye model