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Performance of Electrically Coupled Loop Antenna inside human body at different frequency bands

Research Authors
Ali Ibraheem, Majid Manteghi
Research Member
Research Department
Research Year
2014
Research Journal
Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (APSURSI),
Research Publisher
IEEE
Research Rank
3
Research_Pages
975-976
Research Abstract

Recently there has been a growing interest in the design of implanted antennas for biotelemetry, e-healthcare, and hyperthermia applications. The implanted antenna needs to be extremely small while maintaining a low Specific Absorption Rate (SAR). Most of the proposed antennas for implanted applications are electric field antenna such as Planner Inverted-F Antenna (PIFA). These types of antennas have high near zone electric field intensity and high SAR value. In this work, an Electrically Coupled Loop Antenna (ECLA) is proposed as a magnetic loop antenna, which has a relatively low near zone electric field intensity and therefore, small SAR values. An ECLA is designed in the Medical Implanted Communication Services (MICS) band (402-405 MHz), Industrial Scientific and Medical (ISM) band (2.4-2.5 GHz), and Ultra Wide Band (UWB) communication band (3.5-3.6 GHz) with dimensions (5×5×3mm3), (3×3×3 mm3), and (2×2×2 mm3) respectively. Using High Frequency Structure Simulation (HFSS), the performance of ECLA inside one-layer human body model will be analyzed at three frequency bands.