Title :
Rethinking antenna requirements for medical implant systems
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Electron., Commun. & Inf. Technol., Queen´´s Univ. Belfast, Belfast, UK
Abstract :
This paper examines the basic medical implant communication service (MICS) link budgets for both uplink and downlink, with some recent advances in implant antenna technology and most importantly, the nature of the in body to out of body propagation path. The paper also discusses the emerging network topology options and their impact on antenna requirements, implementation and performance assessment.
Keywords :
UHF antennas; UHF radio propagation; biomedical communication; body area networks; prosthetics; radio links; telecommunication network topology; implant antenna technology; medical implant communication service devices; network topology; radiowave propagation; Antenna measurements; Antennas; Implants; Microwave integrated circuits; Surface impedance; Wireless communication;
Conference_Titel :
Antennas and Propagation (EUCAP), Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0250-1
