Electrical properties of rat skin and design of implantable antennas for medical wireless telemetry

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 57, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2806-2812

  Karacolak, Tutku ^a   Cooper, Robert ^b   Topsakal, Erdem ^a  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Implantable antenna; Medical implant communications service (MICS) band; Scientific and medical (ISM) band; Skin mimicking material

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL STUDIES; DUAL BAND; DUAL BAND ANTENNAS; ELECTRICAL PROPERTY; FINITE ELEMENT-BOUNDARY INTEGRAL; IMPLANTABLE ANTENNA; IMPLANTABLE ANTENNAS; MEDICAL IMPLANT COMMUNICATIONS SERVICE (MICS) BAND; MEDICAL IMPLANT COMMUNICATIONS SERVICES; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM; PHYSIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RAT SKIN; SCIENTIFIC AND MEDICAL (ISM) BAND; SKIN SAMPLES; SMALL SIZE; WIRELESS MEDICAL MONITORING; WIRELESS TELEMETRY;

ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; GLUCOSE; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO); PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; SKIN; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 70349244986     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2009.2027197     Document Type: Article

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