Wave-propagation from medical implants-influence of body shape on radiation pattern

Author

Johansson, A.J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electroscience, Lund Univ., Sweden

Volume

2

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

1409

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7612-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2002.1106454

Filename

1106454