An application of the multilevel DG-FDTD to the study of a medical implant antenna in different body models

Author

Miry, C. ; Gillard, R. ; Loison, R.

Author_Institution

IETR, Inst. of Electron. & Telecommun. of Rennes, Rennes

fYear

2008

fDate

25-28 Oct. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

In this paper, we propose to use the multi-level DG-FDTD approach to analyze the evolution of the transmission coefficient between an implanted antenna in two different simplified body models (an homogeneous one and a three-layered one) and a 0.5lambda₀ dipole in free space at various distances from the body model. The effectiveness of the multilevel DG-FDTD is compared to the classical DG-FDTD method.

Keywords

antennas; biomedical communication; biomedical equipment; body area networks; finite difference time-domain analysis; prosthetics; implanted antenna; medical implants communication systems; multilevel DG-FDTD; transmission coefficient; Biological system modeling; Dielectric substrates; Dipole antennas; Finite difference methods; Humans; Implants; Power transmission; Skin; Time domain analysis; Transmitting antennas; FDTD methods; Medical Implants Communication Systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Applied Sciences on Biomedical and Communication Technologies, 2008. ISABEL '08. First International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Aalborg

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2647-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2648-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISABEL.2008.4712604

Filename

4712604