Design of an antenna for an ingestible capsule endoscope system

Author

Kyeol Kwon ; Wonbum Seo ; Soonyong Lee ; Jaehoon Choi

Author_Institution

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

fYear

2012

fDate

21-23 Sept. 2012

Firstpage

62

Lastpage

65

Abstract

In this paper, an antenna used in an ingestible capsule endoscope system is proposed. To achieve miniaturization and a wide bandwidth, an inverted-F antenna with a meandered strip line was used. The antenna performance in a human voxel model is analyzed through simulation. In order to investigate the performance of the proposed antenna in an indoor environment, a typical sickroom model is setup, and the propagation characteristics between the proposed antenna and the base station are analyzed at 1.4 GHz. The performance of the fabricated antenna is verified by comparing the measured data with that of the simulation when the antenna is placed in a human-equivalent liquid phantom.

Keywords

UHF antennas; UHF radio propagation; endoscopes; planar inverted-F antennas; strip lines; antenna design; base station; frequency 1.4 GHz; human voxel model; human-equivalent liquid phantom; indoor environment; ingestible capsule endoscope system; meandered strip line; planar inverted-F antenna; propagation characteristics; Antenna measurements; Antenna radiation patterns; Base stations; Dipole antennas; Receiving antennas; Ingestible capsule endoscope system; Inverted-F antenna;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Network Infrastructure and Digital Content (IC-NIDC), 2012 3rd IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2201-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICNIDC.2012.6418712

Filename

6418712