Development of UHF implanted RFID antenna for medical/health-care applications

Author

Lin, Ho-Yu ; Takahashi, Masaharu ; Saito, Kazuyuki ; Ito, Koichi

Author_Institution

Grad. Sch. of Eng., Chiba Univ., Chiba, Japan

fYear

2011

fDate

13-20 Aug. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Radio-frequency identification (RFID) is a developed technology and useful for several fields; moreover, it has promising for reducing medical error and receiving the patients´ information without connecting cable lines in hospitals. In this paper, we present an implanted RFID antenna with 50-ohm system for medical/health-care applications. The antenna is designed for one of the UHF band (951-956 MHz) and implanted into a three-layer phantom which represents human upper arm. Some characteristics including the S₁₁ and the radiation pattern are calculated by use of the FDTD method and measured with the three-layer phantom.

Keywords

UHF antennas; biomedical equipment; finite difference time-domain analysis; health care; phantoms; radiofrequency identification; telemedicine; FDTD method; UHF band; UHF implanted RFID antenna; bandwidth 951 MHz to 956 MHz; health-care application; human upper arm; medical application; radiation pattern; radio-frequency identification; three-layer phantom; Antenna measurements; Antenna radiation patterns; Radiofrequency identification; Receiving antennas; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

General Assembly and Scientific Symposium, 2011 XXXth URSI

Conference_Location

Istanbul

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5117-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/URSIGASS.2011.6051334

Filename

6051334