Title :
Wideband printed antennas for medical applications
Author_Institution :
Electron. Eng. Dept., ORT Braude Coll., Karmiel, Israel
Abstract :
Biomedical industry is in continuous growth in the last few years. Low profile compact antennas are crucial in the development of wearable human biomedical systems. Design considerations, computational results and measured results of wideband microstrip antennas with high efficiency for medical applications are presented in this paper.
Keywords :
antenna radiation patterns; biomedical communication; broadband antennas; dipole antennas; microstrip antennas; wearable antennas; antenna radiation pattern; biomedical industry; compact microstrip loaded dipole antennas; low profile compact antennas; medical applications; wearable human biomedical systems; wideband microstrip antennas; wideband printed antennas; Biomedical equipment; Broadband antennas; Decision support systems; Medical services; Antennas; medical applications;
Conference_Titel :
Microwave Conference, 2009. APMC 2009. Asia Pacific
Conference_Location :
Singapore
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2801-4
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2802-1
DOI :
10.1109/APMC.2009.5384521