3D-Spiral small antenna design and realization for biomedical telemetry in the MICS band

Radioengineering

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 359-367

  Abadia, Javier ^a,b,c   Merli, Francesco ^a   Zurcher, Jean François ^a   Mosig, Juan R ^a   Skrivervik, Anja K ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b Syderal SA   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biocompatible antenna; Electrically Small Antenna (ESA); Implantable antenna; Medical Device Radiocommunication Service (MedRadio); Medical Implant Communications Services (MICS)

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955340068     PISSN: 12102512     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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