Design of a triple-band on-body antenna for a biomedical repeater application

Author

Kyeol Kwon ; Jinpil Tak ; Jaehoon Choi

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Comput. Eng., Hanyang Univ., Seoul, South Korea

fYear

2013

fDate

7-13 July 2013

Firstpage

2093

Lastpage

2094

Abstract

A triple-band on-body antenna for a biomedical repeater application is proposed. The designed triple-band antenna has intensified field distribution toward the inside of the human body in the medical implantable communication service band and wireless medical telemetry system band in order to collect vital information from the medical devices located in the human body. To transmit information collected from implanted devices to a monitoring system simultaneously, the proposed antenna has the maximum radiation directed toward the outside in the industrial, scientific and medical band. In addition, the return loss property of the antenna is insensitive to human body effects by utilizing the epsilon negative zeroth-order resonance property.

Keywords

biomedical telemetry; multifrequency antennas; prosthetics; repeaters; biomedical repeater; epsilon negative zeroth-order resonance; human body; implanted devices; industrial band; medical band; medical devices; medical implantable communication service band; monitoring system; scientific band; triple-band on-body antenna; wireless medical telemetry system band; Antenna radiation patterns; Electric fields; Medical diagnostic imaging; Microwave integrated circuits; Phantoms; Repeaters;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (APSURSI), 2013 IEEE

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

ISSN

1522-3965

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5315-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2013.6711705

Filename

6711705