• DocumentCode
    3471957
  • Title

    Numerical analysis of the communication channel path loss at the THz band inside the fat tissue

  • Author

    Ke Yang ; Pellegrini, Alessandro ; Brizzi, Alessio ; Alomainy, Akram ; Yang Hao

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Electron. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Queen Mary Univ. of London, London, UK
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    9-11 Dec. 2013
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    With the growth of the demand of smaller and smaller implantable devices, THz technologies becomes appealing for potential applications in Body Area Networks at nano-scale. As an essential part for understanding the in-body propagation at THz frequency numerical investigations are presented in this paper to simulate the absorption path loss of fat at THz frequency. The results of the proposed analysis suggest that a distance in the order of millimeter might be suitable to guarantee a communication link between nano-devices located in human tissues.
  • Keywords
    biological tissues; body area networks; numerical analysis; radio links; wireless channels; THz band; THz frequency; absorption path loss; communication channel path loss; communication link; fat tissue; human tissues; implantable devices; in-body propagation; nanodevices; nanoscale body area networks; numerical analysis; Absorption; Biological system modeling; Mathematical model; Medical services; Numerical models; Propagation losses; Wireless communication; THz wave propagation; WBAN; nano-communication; nano-network; path loss;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Microwave Workshop Series on RF and Wireless Technologies for Biomedical and Healthcare Applications (IMWS-BIO), 2013 IEEE MTT-S International
  • Conference_Location
    Singapore
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IMWS-BIO.2013.6756165
  • Filename
    6756165