A conical spiral antenna for wideband capsule endoscope system

Author

Lee, Sang Heun ; Chang, Kihun ; Kim, Ki Joon ; Yoon, Young Joong

Author_Institution

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

fYear

2008

fDate

5-11 July 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

In this paper, a conical spiral antenna for wideband capsule endoscope system is proposed. To design an antenna in the human body, operating frequency of the proposed antenna is determined by considering the electrical properties of body materials. The bandwidth of the proposed antenna is 418~519 MHz (101 MHz) for VSWR<2 which means the fractional bandwidth of 22% and it has omni-directional radiation pattern. The height of the proposed antenna is 5 mm and diameter is 10 mm. Because of ultra-wideband characteristic and small size, the proposed conical spiral antenna is suitable for ultra-wideband capsule endoscope system.

Keywords

UHF antennas; antenna radiation patterns; conical antennas; endoscopes; spiral antennas; conical spiral antenna; human body; omnidirectional radiation pattern; ultra-wideband capsule endoscope system; Antenna measurements; Bandwidth; Broadband antennas; Conducting materials; Dielectric materials; Endoscopes; Frequency; Humans; Spirals; Transmitting antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2008. AP-S 2008. IEEE

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2041-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2042-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2008.4619695

Filename

4619695