Title :
UWB antenna for body implanted applications
Author :
Yazdandoost, Kamya Yekeh
Author_Institution :
Dependable Wireless Lab., Nat. Inst. of Inf. & Commun. Technol., Yokosuka, Japan
Abstract :
The current Medical Implant Communications Service (MICS) with frequency range of 402-405 MHz is not suitable to transfer huge data due to bandwidth and regulation limitation. There is a demand for tissue implanted device for wireless medical applications with wider bandwidth as medicine day by day and more and more is associated with electronics and electromagnetics. It is obvious that, the key element for any wireless implanted device is an antenna, and there are several issues to be considered while designing an in-body Ultra Wideband (UWB) antenna, such as: power consumption, size, impedance matching, and the unique Radio Frequency (RF) transmission challenges posed by the human body. This paper is presenting an implantable UWB antenna for the frequency band of 3.1-10.6 GHz for the purpose of use in the human head. A numerical simulation has been used to characterize the proposed implantable UWB antenna.
Keywords :
biological tissues; biomedical electronics; numerical analysis; prosthetics; ultra wideband antennas; wireless channels; UWB impedance matching; UWB power consumption; UWB size; bandwidth limitation; human head; implantable UWB antenna; medical implant communications service; numerical simulation; radio frequency transmission; regulation limitation; tissue implanted device; ultra wideband antenna; wireless medical applications; Head; Humans; Magnetic heads; Ultra wideband antennas; Wireless communication; biomedical communication; implantable biomedical device; medical information system; telehealthcare; ultra wideband (UWB) antenna;
Conference_Titel :
Microwave Conference (EuMC), 2012 42nd European
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2215-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-2-87487-026-2
