Feasibility, limitations and potentiality of UHF-RFID passive implants

Author

Occhiuzzi, Cecilia ; Simiele, M. ; Lodato, R. ; Marrocco, G.

Author_Institution

Pervasive Electromagn. Lab., Univ. of Roma Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

fYear

2012

fDate

5-7 Nov. 2012

Firstpage

40

Lastpage

45

Abstract

Implanted RFID may play an important role in the personal Healthcare of next future. Antenna embedded into prosthesis or into other implanted medical devices could permit to monitor physiological and pathological processes, providing a natural interconnection to remote services. The big technical challenge is to establish a stable RFID link with the interior of the human body in spite of the high electromagnetic losses of the tissues. By using parametric electromagnetic models and some early result, it is here investigated the potentiality and limitation of the UHF implants with special attention to the body district, the overall mass, and the size of the antennas.

Keywords

UHF antennas; health care; prosthetics; radio links; radiofrequency identification; RFID link; UHF-RFID passive implants; antenna; electromagnetic losses; implanted medical devices; parametric electromagnetic models; pathological process; personal healthcare; physiological process; prosthesis; remote services; Antennas; Implants; Integrated circuits; Neck; Phantoms; Radiofrequency identification; Sensitivity;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

RFID-Technologies and Applications (RFID-TA), 2012 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Nice

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-4656-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-4658-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RFID-TA.2012.6404557

Filename

6404557