Differentially fed dual-band implantable antenna for biomedical applications

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 60, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 5587-5595

  Duan, Zhu ^a,b   Guo, Yong Xin ^a   Xue, Rui Feng ^b   Je, Minkyu ^a,b   Kwong, Dim Lee ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Communication link; differential feeding; dual band antennas; implanted antennas; link margin; specific absorption rate (SAR)

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS; CENTER FREQUENCY; DUAL BAND ANTENNAS; DUAL-BAND; IMPLANTABLE ANTENNAS; IMPLANTED ANTENNAS; LINK MARGIN; MEDICAL IMPLANT COMMUNICATION SERVICES; NEURAL RECORDINGS; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE; WIDE-BAND COMMUNICATIONS;

ANTENNA FEEDERS; BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS; COMMUNICATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; RADAR ANTENNAS; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS; TISSUE;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 84870864473     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2012.2209197     Document Type: Article

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