Mohaira Ahmad obtained her B.E. degree in Electrical (Telecom) Engineering from National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan, in 2010 and Ph.D degree in Computer Application Technology with specialization in computational electromagnetics from Jiangsu University, China in 2019 under the supervision of Prof Lixia Yang. She is currently an Assistant Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan. She worked as an Assistant Professor at the Electrical Engineering Department, University of Lahore, Pakistan from 2014 to 2015. She worked as an R&D engineer at National Radio and Telecommunication Corporation from 2010-2012. Her research interest includes computational electromagnetics, graphene based devices, terahertz, reconfigurable antennas and MIMO antennas.

Title: Microstrip Patch Antenna for the Design and development of an RF-based bone health monitoring system

Abstract:
The major objective of this project is to address bone health diagnosis with cost-effective solutions. Till-date BMD (Bone Mineral Density) analysis is an expensive procedure for bone health diagnosis including heavy duty equipment as well as health and safety procedures. For patients with serious bone health problems like Osteoporosis and fragility fractures, it is difficult to understand the risk of bone fracture on the fly. However, the value of bone mineral density (BMD) can be a good predictor in both scenarios. These fragility fractures arise from low energy traumas in daily activities and are more common in elderly people, and sometimes due to the impairment of BMD due to micro architectural deterioration of bone.
As the number of osteoporosis patients are increasing, we need more reliable method that can helps in detecting this type of cancer in early stages, which will lead to save patient's lives as the earlier the tumor is detected the higher the chance for recovery. Approximately 50% of women and 20% of men are reported to suffer from this bone damage problem over the age of 50. In addition, COVID-19 also has an adverse effect on the osteoporosis patient profile which is now in a state of increase. The BMD test is expensive and also involves exposure of the human body to ionizing radiation for 30-40 minutes which is very harmful.
Therefore, the aim of our project is to design a Micro strip Antenna system that is used for detecting bone health with low cost.  Thus, providing the capability of early diagnosis of the onset of osteoporosis and prevention of osteoporotic fractures. In this research work, a micro-strip patch antenna which is the most suitable type of antenna for this task due to its small size, light weight, low profile, easy fabrication and low cost is designed. Furthermore, the frequency band is the ISM band, which is the Industrial, Scientific and Medical band is used in this project (2GHz to 2.8GHz). A Rectangular Microstrip Patch Antenna has been designed for Microwave Imaging (MI) with a frequency range of 2GHz to 2.8 GHz at a resonant frequency of 2.4 GHz.