Intra-body channel characterization of medical implant devices

Author

De Santis, Valerio ; Feliziani, Mauro

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of L´´Aquila, L´´Aquila, Italy

fYear

2011

fDate

26-30 Sept. 2011

Firstpage

816

Lastpage

819

Abstract

The propagation channel for intra-body communications between implant medical radio devices is investigated by simulations. The electromagnetic field produced by several implanted antennas located at different positions inside the human body is calculated by the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method. The path loss (PL) between transmitting and receiving antennas is evaluated at the Medical Implant Communication Service (MICS) band (402-405 MHz), at Industrial, Scientific and Medical (ISM) band of 2.45 GHz and at the frequency band of ultra wideband (UWB) communications.

Keywords

biomedical equipment; finite difference time-domain analysis; receiving antennas; transmitting antennas; ultra wideband communication; FDTD method; electromagnetic field; finite-difference time-domain method; frequency 2.45 GHz; frequency 402 MHz to 405 MHz; frequency band communications; human body; implant medical radio devices; implanted antennas; intrabody channel characterization; intrabody communications; medical implant communication service band; path loss; propagation channel; receiving antennas; transmitting antennas; ultra wideband communications; Biological system modeling; Dipole antennas; Implants; Medical diagnostic imaging; Microwave integrated circuits; MICS; body area network; channel characterization; medical implant communication; path loss;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

EMC Europe 2011 York

Conference_Location

York

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1709-3

Type

conf

Filename

6078614