SAR calculations around implanted cardiac pacemaker induced by wireless radio terminal in VHF band

Author

Saito, Kazuyuki ; Endo, Yuta ; Akiyama, Ryota ; Watanabe, Soichi ; Ito, Koichi

Author_Institution

Nat. Inst. of Inf. & Commun. Technol., Koganei, Japan

fYear

2014

fDate

8-10 Dec. 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

Recently, electromagnetic interference (EMI) of an implanted pacemaker induced by a mobile radio terminal has been investigated. However, there are few studies of specific absorption rate (SAR) around the pacemaker induced by the mobile radio terminal. In particular, the SAR in such a case due to the electromagnetic wave of very high frequency (VHF) band has not been investigated. In this paper, SAR distributions around a pacemaker model embedded into the torso model by a wireless radio terminal in VHF band, which are used in police officers, airport employees etc., are calculated. As a result of calculations, possibilities of increasing the SAR were observed.

Keywords

VHF radio propagation; cardiology; electromagnetic interference; pacemakers; prosthetics; telecommunication terminals; SAR calculations; SAR distributions; VHF band; electromagnetic interference; electromagnetic wave; high frequency band; implanted cardiac pacemaker; mobile radio terminal; specific absorption rate; torso model; wireless radio terminal; Atmospheric modeling; Electromagnetic interference; Land mobile radio; Pacemakers; Time-domain analysis; Torso; Wireless communication; Specific absorption rate (SAR); finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) calculation; implanted cardiac pacemaker; very high frequency (VHF);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

RF and Wireless Technologies for Biomedical and Healthcare Applications (IMWS-Bio), 2014 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Workshop Series on

Conference_Location

London

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-5445-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMWS-BIO.2014.7032456

Filename

7032456