The effect of insulating layers on the performance of implanted antennas

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 21-31

  Merli, Francesco ^a   Fuchs, Benjamin ^b   Mosig, Juan R ^a   Skrivervik, Anja K ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

Biocompatible antenna; implanted antennas; insulation; Medical Device Radiocommunications Service (MedRadio); spherical wave expansion

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL FORMULATION; BIOCOMPATIBLE ANTENNA; BIOLOGICAL TISSUES; ELECTRIC DIPOLE; ELECTROMAGNETIC TRANSITIONS; FREE SPACE; HUMAN BODIES; HUMAN TISSUES; HUYGENS; IMPLANTED ANTENNAS; INSULATING LAYERS; INSULATION PROPERTY; INTERNAL INSULATION; MAGNETIC DIPOLE; MEDICAL DEVICES; RADIATION EFFICIENCY; REASONABLE ACCURACY; SIMPLIFIED MODELS; SPHERICAL GEOMETRIES; SPHERICAL WAVE EXPANSION;

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BIOTELEMETRY; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); INSULATING MATERIALS; SPHERES;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 78651344044     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2010.2090465     Document Type: Article

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