Design of FSS unit-cell integrated in water bolus for microwave biomedical application

Author

Woo Cheol Choi ; Ki Joon Kim ; Young Joong Yoon

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Yonsei Univ., Seoul, South Korea

fYear

2014

fDate

4-6 Aug. 2014

Firstpage

265

Lastpage

266

Abstract

An unit-cell of Frequency Selective Surface (FSS) is designed in order to control the transmission characteristics of electromagnetic waves penetrated into the human body for microwave biomedical applications. The integration of water bolus and FSS not only assists the impedance matching in complex dielectric medium but also provides the optimal condition for the wave penetration. The proposed FSS unit cell integrated in water bolus operates at 915 MHz, allocated in Industrial Scientific Medical (ISM) frequency band, and has good wave-transmission with phase shifting characteristics. The unit cell of FSS is miniaturized in order to apply to the human body and analyzed to operate on the phantom as equivalent model for electrical characteristics of human body.

Keywords

bioelectric phenomena; biomedical equipment; dielectric properties; electromagnetic wave transmission; frequency selective surfaces; impedance matching; microwaves; phantoms; water; FSS unit cell miniaturization; FSS unit-cell design; FSS unit-cell integration; H₂O; ISM frequency band; Industrial Scientific Medical frequency band; complex dielectric medium; electromagnetic wave penetration; electromagnetic wave transmission control; frequency 915 MHz; frequency selective surface unit-cell design; human body electrical characteristics; impedance matching; microwave biomedical application; optimal wave penetration condition; phantom; phase shifting characteristics; transmission characteristics; water bolus; Dielectrics; Electromagnetic scattering; Frequency selective surfaces; Impedance matching; Microwave filters; Phantoms; Resonant frequency; Biomedical application; Frequency Selective Surface (FSS); Phase shifting surface;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electromagnetics (iWEM), 2014 IEEE International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Sapporo

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/iWEM.2014.6963738

Filename

6963738