DocumentCode
675942
Title
Substrate integrated waveguide antenna arrays for high-performance 60 GHz radar and radio systems
Author
Guntupalli, Ajay Babu ; Ke Wu
Author_Institution
Electr. Eng. Dept., Univ. of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada
Volume
01
fYear
2013
fDate
23-25 Oct. 2013
Firstpage
589
Lastpage
592
Abstract
We studied MHz-band communication between a TRX on the surface of the human body (wearable TRX) and a TRX embedded in the environment (embedded TRX). In this work, we propose a medical application to take advantage of MHz-band characteristics on the human body by embedding a TRX into the human body (in-body TRX) and examined the feasibility of in- and on-body communication. We also fabricated an electrically isolated probe (E/O-O/E probe) because conventional probes overestimate the received signal due to additional capacitance. The E/O-O/E probe eliminates this additional capacitance and can measure the received signal precisely. We measured the path loss around a phantom equivalent to a human and found that the proposed application is very useful in terms of engineering output power and received sensitivity.
Keywords
biomedical communication; body area networks; near-field communication; phantoms; probes; radio receivers; radio transmitters; MHz-band characteristics; MHz-band communication; electrically isolated probe; embedded TRX; human body; in-body TRX; in-body communication; medical application; near-field intra-body communication systems; on-body communication; path loss; phantom; signal propagation analysis; wearable TRX; Biomedical monitoring; Electric variables measurement; Electrodes; Phantoms; Probes; Transceivers;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Antennas & Propagation (ISAP), 2013 Proceedings of the International Symposium on
Conference_Location
Nanjing
Print_ISBN
978-7-5641-4279-7
Type
conf
Filename
6717526
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