Wearable antennas for medical monitoring systems

Gareth A. Conway; William G. Scanlon

doi:10.1109/IWAT.2015.7365348

Wearable antennas for medical monitoring systems

Gareth A. Conway, William G. Scanlon

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Abstract

A wearable silver nano particle inkjet printed antenna suitable for wireless biomedical sensing is presented. The performance is evaluated on a synthetic variable layered phantom test-bed, representative of human tissue for operation in the 868/915 MHz, and 2400 MHz industrial, scientific and medical frequency bands. Antenna radiation efficiency measurements on the phantom were compared with antennas prototyped with copper. Total radiation efficiencies up to ???6.5 dB are reported, with less than 0.5 dB difference in performance between copper and silver nano particle variants, showing promising application for low-cost disposable wireless sensing.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of 2015 International Workshop on Antenna Technology (iWAT)
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Pages	19-21
Number of pages	3
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4799-7717-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/IWAT.2015.7365348
Publication status	Published - 01 Mar 2015
Event	2015 International Workshop on Antenna Technology (iWAT) - Seoul, Korea, Republic of Duration: 04 Mar 2015 → 06 Mar 2015

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Conference	2015 International Workshop on Antenna Technology (iWAT)
Country	Korea, Republic of
City	Seoul
Period	04/03/2015 → 06/03/2015

Keywords

Antenna measurements
Antennas
Biomedical monitoring
Phantoms
Wireless communication
Wireless sensor networks
Bodycentric Communications
Conductive inkjet printing
Disposable Radio
Human tissue phantoms
Wearable Antennas
Wireless Medical Sensors
Wireless Sensing

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