Fat arm spiral antenna for wideband capsule endoscope systems

Author

Lee, Sang Heun ; Yoon, Young Joong

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Yonsei Univ., Seoul, South Korea

fYear

2010

fDate

10-14 Jan. 2010

Firstpage

579

Lastpage

582

Abstract

In this paper, a new antenna for wideband capsule endoscope systems is introduced. The antenna that is supposed to operate in human body has fat arm spiral structure to achieve small size and wideband characteristics. Since capsule endoscope systems are designed to operate in the human body and its front end transmits internal image data to an external receiver with high resolution, a wideband and small antenna is required. Moreover, to operate in the human body, the frequency of the proposed antenna is determined from the electrical properties of body materials. The bandwidth of the proposed antenna is 460~535 MHz (75 MHz) for VSWR < 2 and it has omni-directional radiation pattern. The height of the proposed antenna is 4 mm and diameter is 10 mm. Because of wideband characteristic and small size, the proposed antenna is suitable for wideband capsule endoscope systems.

Keywords

UHF antennas; antenna radiation patterns; biomedical communication; broadband antennas; endoscopes; spiral antennas; electrical properties; external receiver; fat arm spiral antenna; frequency 460 MHz to 535 MHz; omnidirectional radiation pattern; wideband capsule endoscope systems; Antenna radiation patterns; Bandwidth; Broadband antennas; Endoscopes; Frequency; Humans; Image resolution; Receiving antennas; Spirals; Transmitting antennas; Fat arm spiral; capsule endoscope systems; small size antenna; wideband antenna;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radio and Wireless Symposium (RWS), 2010 IEEE

Conference_Location

New Orleans, LA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4725-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4726-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RWS.2010.5434174

Filename

5434174