A Novel UWB Discone Antenna for Biomedical Applications

Author

Ghafari, M. ; Adjrad, Mounir ; Ghavam, Mohammad

Author_Institution

Dept. of Eng. & Design, London South Bank Univ., London, UK

fYear

2013

Firstpage

127

Lastpage

131

Abstract

This work presents a new variant of a discone ultra-wideband (UWB) antenna operating in the frequency range between 3.1GHz and 4.1GHz. The antenna is fitted with two cylinders: a first cylinder placed in the middle of the conventional cone to effectively select the high cut-off frequency and a second cylinder is attached to the conventional antenna disc to effectively select the low cut-off frequency. The antenna with operating frequency close to lower band of UWB is suitable for radiation into the human body since the penetration of signal is reduced by effect of tissue properties as frequency increases. The small dimensions of the antenna and its operating frequency makes it a very strong candidate for Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) applications such as vital sign monitoring (heart beat and respiratory rate detection), brain scan, breast scan and implants detection.

Keywords

biological tissues; body area networks; microwave antennas; patient monitoring; ultra wideband antennas; UWB discone antenna; WBAN applications; biomedical applications; brain scan; breast scan; conventional antenna disc; discone ultra-wideband antenna; frequency 3.1 GHz to 4.1 GHz; heart beat; human body; implants detection; operating frequency; respiratory rate detection; signal penetration; tissue properties; vital sign monitoring; wireless body area network; Antenna radiation patterns; Bandwidth; Cutoff frequency; Resonant frequency; Ultra wideband antennas; Antenna pattern; Discone antenna; UWB; WBAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Modelling Symposium (EMS), 2013 European

Conference_Location

Manchester

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-2577-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EMS.2013.22

Filename

6779833