Meandered versus spiral novel miniature PIFAs implanted in the human head: Tuning and performance

Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering

Volumn 83 LNICST, Issue , 2012, Pages 80-87

  Kiourti, Asimina ^a   Nikita, Konstantina S ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Biocompatibility; implanted biomedical devices; meandered antenna; medical implant communications service (MICS) band; spiral antenna

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL DEVICES; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAINS; HUMAN HEAD; MEDICAL IMPLANT COMMUNICATIONS SERVICES; MONITORING EQUIPMENT; PLANAR INVERTED-F ANTENNA; RADIATION PERFORMANCE; RESONANCE DETUNING; SAR DISTRIBUTION; SHORTING PIN; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE; WIRELESS BIOTELEMETRY;

BIOCOMPATIBILITY; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; HEALTH CARE; RADAR ANTENNAS; SPIRAL ANTENNAS;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 84869593095     PISSN: 18678211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-29734-2_12     Document Type: Conference Paper

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