Compact low-profile antenna for wireless medical vital sign monitors at 868 MHz

Author

Conway, Gareth A. ; Scanlon, William G.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Electron., Commun. & Inf. Technol., Queen´s Univ. Belfast, Belfast, UK

fYear

2014

fDate

6-11 April 2014

Firstpage

830

Lastpage

832

Abstract

A low-profile wearable antenna suitable for integration into low-cost, disposable medical vital signs monitors is presented. Simulated and measured antenna performance was characterized on a layered human tissue phantom, representative of the thorax region of a range of human bodies. The wearable antenna has sufficient bandwidth for the 868 MHz Industrial, Scientific and Medical frequency band. Wearable radiation efficiency of up to 30 % is reported when mounted in close proximity to the novel human tissue phantom antenna test-bed at 868 MHz.

Keywords

biological tissues; biomedical communication; radio networks; wearable antennas; compact low profile antenna; disposable medical vital signs monitors; frequency 868 MHz; human bodies; human tissue phantom; human tissue phantom antenna; industrial band; medical frequency band; scientific band; thorax region; wearable antenna; wireless medical vital sign monitors; Antenna measurements; Antennas; Biomedical monitoring; Monitoring; Phantoms; Resonant frequency; Wearable antenna; human tissue phantom; measurement; propagation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2014 8th European Conference on

Conference_Location

The Hague

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EuCAP.2014.6901890

Filename

6901890