A multiband slotted Bowtie antenna for stroke detection

Author

Li, Xuyang ; Jalilvand, Malyhe ; Yan, Jijing ; Zwirello, Lukasz ; Zwick, Thomas

Author_Institution

Inst. fur Hochfrequenztech. und Elektron., Karlsruhe Inst. of Technol., Karlsruhe, Germany

fYear

2012

fDate

17-20 Sept. 2012

Firstpage

439

Lastpage

442

Abstract

For stroke detection, low frequencies are required due to the increasing signal attenuation in human tissues with the frequency. In this paper a multiband slotted Bowtie antenna is proposed, which can be operated directly on or near to the skin. The antenna has a very small size of 26×34 mm². Moreover, the operating bands are from 0.5 to 0.7 GHz and 1.3 to 4 GHz. The antenna is optimized in the simulation and verified through the measurements. The results show that the antenna provides a high potential for medical diagnostics such as human stroke detection.

Keywords

biological tissues; bow-tie antennas; diseases; multifrequency antennas; patient diagnosis; human stroke detection; human tissues; medical diagnostics; multiband slotted bowtie antenna; signal attenuation; Antenna measurements; Microwave antennas; Microwave imaging; Microwave theory and techniques; Slot antennas; antenna; multiband; resonant frequency; slotted Bowtie; stroke detection;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Ultra-Wideband (ICUWB), 2012 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Syracuse, NY

ISSN

2162-6588

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-2031-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340477

Filename

6340477