Exterior antennas for wireless medical links: EBG backed dipole and loop antennas

Author

Kim, Jaehoon ; Rahmat-Samii, Yahya

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

fYear

2005

fDate

3-8 July 2005

Firstpage

800

Abstract

Antennas located at the outside of a human body are studied through FDTD simulations. Low-profile antennas are designed using electromagnetic bandgap (EBG) structure and are positioned to radiate power to the outside and inside of a human body. By changing the distance between the antennas and a biological tissue, the return loss variations of the antennas are observed and the radiation efficiencies and specific absorption ratio (SAR) are calculated.

Keywords

UHF radio propagation; antenna radiation patterns; biological tissues; biomedical communication; dipole antennas; electromagnetic wave absorption; finite difference time-domain analysis; loop antennas; loss measurement; photonic band gap; telemedicine; EBG backed dipole antennas; FDTD simulations; SAR; biological tissue; electromagnetic bandgap; exterior antennas; human body; loop antennas; low-profile antennas; radiation efficiencies; return loss variations; specific absorption ratio; wireless medical links; Biological system modeling; Biological tissues; Dipole antennas; Electromagnetic wave absorption; Finite difference methods; Humans; Medical simulation; Metamaterials; Periodic structures; Time domain analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2005 IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8883-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2005.1552138

Filename

1552138