Person-centric microelectronic sensor systems: Implant use case

Author

Dolmans, G. ; Kiyani, N.F. ; Pflug, H.W. ; Li, D. ; Visser, H.J.

Author_Institution

ULP Wireless Syst., Hoist Centre / Imec, Eindhoven, Netherlands

fYear

2014

Firstpage

854

Lastpage

857

Abstract

Our research institute focuses on wireless autonomous transducer systems. Body-area-networks have a particular research challenge, since wireless communications close to the body, or even inside the body (implants) is heavily influenced by the dielectric and conductive losses of human tissue. This paper describes a case study to define the specifications for a 400 MHz transceiver operating internal and external to the body. The transceiver physical layer will be defined, supported by measurement and simulation results.

Keywords

bioelectric phenomena; biological tissues; biomedical electronics; biomedical telemetry; body area networks; body sensor networks; dielectric losses; microsensors; personal area networks; prosthetics; telemedicine; transceivers; body area network research challenge; external transceiver operation; frequency 400 MHz; human tissue conductive loss; human tissue dielectric loss; implant; internal transceiver operation; person-centric microelectronic sensor system; simulation; transceiver physical layer; transceiver specification; wireless autonomous transducer system; wireless communication; Antenna measurements; IEEE 802.15 Standards; Implants; Loss measurement; Noise figure; Receiving antennas; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS), 2014 21st IEEE International Conference on

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICECS.2014.7050120

Filename

7050120