Study of performance and propagation characteristics of wire and planar structures around human body

Author

Aroul, A. L Praveen ; Bhatia, Dinesh

Author_Institution

Embedded & Adaptive Comput. Group, Univ. of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA

fYear

2011

fDate

Aug. 30 2011-Sept. 3 2011

Firstpage

4014

Lastpage

4017

Abstract

Continued miniaturization of electronic devices and technological advancements in wireless communications has made wearable body-centric telemedicine systems viable. Antennas play a crucial role in characterizing the efficiency and reliability of these systems. The performance characteristics such as the radiation pattern, gain, efficiency of the antennas get adversely affected due to the presence of lossy human body tissues. In this paper we investigate the above mentioned performance parameters and radio frequency transmission properties of wire and planar structures operating at ISM frequency band of 2.40-2.50 GHz in the proximity of human body.

Keywords

telemedicine; wireless sensor networks; antenna efficiency; electronic device miniaturization; gain; human body; performance characteristics; planar structures; propagation characteristics; radiation pattern; reliability; wearable body centric telemedicine systems; wire structures; wireless communications; Antenna radiation patterns; Biological system modeling; Dipole antennas; Humans; Numerical models; Equipment Design; Humans; Miniaturization; Wireless Technology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC, 2011 Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

ISSN

1557-170X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4121-1

Electronic_ISBN

1557-170X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6090997

Filename

6090997