Measurement of Deep Tissue Implanted Antenna Efﬁciency Using a Reverberation Chamber

Yomna El-Saboni; Matthew K. Magill; Gareth A. Conway; Simon Cotton; William G. Scanlon

doi:10.1109/JERM.2017.2765638

Measurement of Deep Tissue Implanted Antenna Efﬁciency Using a Reverberation Chamber

Yomna El-Saboni, Matthew K. Magill, Gareth A. Conway, Simon Cotton, William G. Scanlon

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Abstract

We investigate the use of a reverberation chamber for the experimental measurement of deep implant antenna radiation efficiency. The technique was able to measure the extremely low efficiencies associated with deep implant antennas inside a muscle tissue-mimicking liquid phantom. Results were obtained for a range of insulated and un-insulated antennas with efficiencies as low as 0.06%. Analysis showed that while measurement errors were dominated by positioning variability, spurious feed cable radiation is still a significant factor that must be considered. Depending on the radiation characteristics of the antenna under test and the feed cable routing within the phantom, cable radiation could lead to errors of up to 4.5 dB.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	90-97
Number of pages	8
Journal	IEEE Journal of Electromagnetics, RF and Microwaves in Medicine and Biology
Volume	1
Issue number	2
Early online date	23 Oct 2017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/JERM.2017.2765638
Publication status	Published - 02 Dec 2017

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El-Saboni, Y., Magill, M. K., Conway, G. A., Cotton, S., & Scanlon, W. G. (2017). Measurement of Deep Tissue Implanted Antenna Efﬁciency Using a Reverberation Chamber. IEEE Journal of Electromagnetics, RF and Microwaves in Medicine and Biology, 1(2), 90-97. https://doi.org/10.1109/JERM.2017.2765638

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