Terahertz Communications in Human Tissues at the Nanoscale for Healthcare Applications

Author

Piro, Giuseppe ; Ke Yang ; Boggia, Gennaro ; Chopra, Nishtha ; Grieco, Luigi Alfredo ; Alomainy, Akram

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Inf. Eng., Politec. di Bari, Bari, Italy

Volume

14

Issue

3

fYear

2015

fDate

May-15

Firstpage

404

Lastpage

406

Abstract

This letter investigates nanoscale wireless communications in human tissues. Starting from propagation models, validated through real experiments, channel capacity and transmission ranges are derived for different physical transmission settings. Results highlight the challenges characterizing the communication in such a medium, thus, paving the way to novel research activities devoted to the design of pioneering nanomedical applications.

Keywords

biological tissues; biomedical communication; channel capacity; health care; medical computing; nanomedicine; performance evaluation; channel capacity; healthcare applications; human tissues; nanomedical applications; nanoscale wireless communications; physical transmission settings; terahertz communications; Absorption; Channel capacity; Frequency modulation; Noise; Propagation losses; Skin; Wireless communication; Channel capacity; Nano scale communications; THz band; human tissue; nano scale communications;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nanotechnology, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1536-125X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TNANO.2015.2415557

Filename

7064775