ON-BODY ANTENNAS: TOWARDS WEARABLE INTELLIGENCE| Session Chairs: | Yahya Rahmat-Samii, Erdem Topsakal |
The advances in wireless power and data telemetry technologies combined with the low power electronic circuit components played a key role in design and development of wireless medical devices in healthcare. As a result, numerous applications in medical diagnostics became a reality such as cardiac pacemakers and defibrillators, visual prosthesis, brain computer interfaces, and body area networks for sensing oxygen, glucose, pH level, pressure, and temperature. One major component in these systems is the onboard antennas. Because most electronic components are low power and relatively small, the overall size of the device is dictated by the antenna size. Usable frequencies for both implantable and body centric antennas are the Medical Device Radiocommunications Service - MedRadio (401 - 406 MHz, 413 - 419 MHz, 426 - 432 MHz, 438 - 444 MHz, and 451 - 457 MHz), the Wireless Medical Telemetry Service -WMTS (608 - 614 MHz, 1395 - 1400 MHz, and 1427 - 1432 MHz) and the Industrial, Scientific and Medical -ISM (433-434.8 MHz, 902-928 MHz, 2.4-2.5 GHz, and 5.725-5.875 GHz) bands. These relatively low frequencies combined with the complexity and lossy nature of the human body result in antenna design challenges such as antenna size, flexibility, power transmission efficiency, heat dissipation, SAR, maximum available data rate. In addition, biocompatibility is also a challenge for implantable systems. In order to address these challenges, this joint URSI Commissions KB session will focus on the design of antennas for next generation devices for wireless medical telemetry systems.
13:40 KB01.1 ON-BODY ANTENNAS: TOWARDS WEARABLE INTELLIGENCE
K. Koski1, E. Moradi1, T. Björninen1, L. Sydänheimo1, Y. Rahmat-Samii2, L. Ukkonen1
1Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland
2Electrical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA
14:00 KB01.2 DESIGN OF RECEIVING ANTENNA FOR WIRELESS POWER TRANSMISSION TO CAPSULAR ENDOSCOPE
D. Takei, K. Saito, M. Takahashi, K. Ito
Chiba University, Chiba, Japan
14:20 KB01.3 MIMO ANTENNA EMBEDDED IN A WRIST-WATCH FOR APPLICATION IN TELEMEDICINE
H. Hamouda1, R. Addaci2, P. Le Thuc1, R. Staraj1, G. Kossiavas1
1UMR 7248, CNRS, Univ. Nice Sophia Antipolis, LEAT, Sophia Antipolis, France
2LEOST, IFSTTAR, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France
14:40 KB01.4 TEMPERATURE ELEVATION PRODUCED BY MINIATURE IMPLANTABLE ANTENNAS FOR INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE MONITORING
K. A. Psathas, K. S. Nikita
Electrical & Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece
15:00 KB01.5 INVESTIGATION OF THE REALIZATION OF A BREAST-CANCER DETECTION SYSTEM
W. -G. Kang1, G. -J. Yi1, S. -I. Jeon2, H. -J. Kim2, H. -D. Choi2, J. -K. Pack1
1Chungnam National University, Daejeon, South Korea
2ETRI(Elecctronics and Telecommunications Research Institute), Daejeon, South Korea
15:20 KB01.6 A PATCH RESONATOR FOR SENSING BLOOD GLUCOSE CHANGES
T. Yilmaz1, A. Brizzi2, R. Foster2, M. Munoz2, Y. Hao2
1Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Utah State University, Logan, USA
2School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK