Title :
Wave-propagation from medical implants-influence of body shape on radiation pattern
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electroscience, Lund Univ., Sweden
Abstract :
The new standard medical implant communications service (MICS) for communication with medical implants uses the 403-405 MHz band. The influence of a patient´s body shape and position on the radiation pattern from an implanted radio transmitter has been simulated. Simulations and comparisons have been made with different body shapes (male, female and child) and different arm positions. It can be concluded from the results that the difference between different body shapes are at least as large as the influence of a patients arm movements.
Keywords :
biomedical telemetry; pacemakers; phantoms; radio transmitters; radiotelemetry; radiowave propagation; 403 to 405 MHz; MICS; arm movements; arm positions; body position; body shape; child; female; heart arrhythmias; implanted pacemakers; implanted radio transmitter; male; medical implants; radiation pattern; standard medical implant communications service; wave-propagation; Biological system modeling; Coils; Humans; Imaging phantoms; Implants; Medical simulation; Microwave integrated circuits; Pacemakers; Shape; Wire;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 2002. 24th Annual Conference and the Annual Fall Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society EMBS/BMES Conference, 2002. Proceedings of the Second Joint
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7612-9
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2002.1106454
