K09: Interactions between Human Body and Implanted Systems field applications

Thursday, August 21  09:40-11:40,  Room #10

Session Chairs: Jianqing Wang, Konstantina Nikita

Electromagnetic fields interact with (active or passive) medical systems implanted in the human body. The interaction can cause hazardous interference with medical systems. The interaction can also be used for intentional use to transmit information and/or energy between implanted devices and equipment outside of human body. This session focuses on the electromagnetic interaction through human body in the transmission path including both interference and intentional use.

9:40  K09.1   RADIO PROPAGATION MODELS FOR IN-BODY SENSORS

R. Chavez Santiago1,2,3, I. Balasingham1,2,3

1The Interventional Centre, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
2Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
3Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway


10:00  K09.2   LINK BUDGET ANALYSIS OF A BIOCOMPATIBLE DUAL-BAND IMPLANTABLE ANTENNA FOR INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE MONITORING

K. A. Psathas, A. Kiourti, K. S. Nikita

Electrical & Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece


10:20  K09.3   MODELLING OF SKIN TISSUE FOR BODY-CENTRIC COMMUNICATIONS AT TERAHERTZ FREQUENCIES

M. Munoz, K. Yang, A. Alomainy, Y. Hao

School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary, University of London, London, United Kingdom


10:40  K09.4   BENEFITS AND LIMITS OF UWB FOR IN- AND OUT-OF-BODY COMMUNICATION

M. Zahner1, J. Wang2, J. Fröhlich1

1Institute of Electromagnetic Fields, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
2Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Japan


11:00  K09.5   FPGA IMPLEMENTION OF UWB-IR RECEIVER FOR IN-BODY TO OUT-OF-BODY COMMUNICATION PERFORMANCE EVALUATION

Y. Shimizu, D. Anzai, J. Wang

Graduatie School of Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Gokiso-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya 4, Japan


11:20  K09.6   ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL RF-INDUCED HEATING OF AIMDS DURING MR EXPOSURE

E. Zastrow, E. Cabot, N. Kuster

IT'IS Foundation, Zurich, Switzerland