A flexible loop antenna for biomedical bone implants

Author

Alrawashdeh, Rula ; Yi Huang ; Abu Bakar Sajak, Aznida

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Electron., Univ. of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

fYear

2014

fDate

6-11 April 2014

Firstpage

861

Lastpage

864

Abstract

In this paper a flexible loop antenna is proposed for biomedical bone implants in the Medical Device Radiocommunications Service (401-406 MHz) and the Industrial Scientific and Medical (433-434.8 MHz) bands which is probably the first bone implantable antenna that covers these bands. This antenna has shown a robust performance against up to 50 % of the variations of the body dielectric properties. The main design considerations for bone implantable antennas in comparison with the corresponding considerations for muscle implantable antennas are also addressed in this paper.

Keywords

bioelectric phenomena; biomedical telemetry; bone; dielectric properties; loop antennas; muscle; prosthetics; radiocommunication; biomedical bone implants; body dielectric property variations; flexible loop antenna; frequency 401 MHz to 406 MHz; frequency 433 MHz to 434.8 MHz; medical device radiocommunications service; muscle implantable antennas; Antennas; Bones; Dielectrics; Implants; Muscles; Skin; Biomedical telemetry; Industrial Sceientific and Medical (ISM) antenna; Medical Device Radiocommunications Service (MedRadio) antenna; bone implants; flexible antenna;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2014 8th European Conference on

Conference_Location

The Hague

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EuCAP.2014.6901898

Filename

6901898