Accelerated design of optimized implantable antennas for medical telemetry

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 11, Issue , 2012, Pages 1655-1658

  Kiourti, Asimina ^a   Nikita, Konstantina S ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Implantable antenna; Medical Device Radiocommunications Service (MedRadio) band; optimization

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATED DESIGN; ANTENNA DESIGN; APPLICATION SCENARIO; CARDIAC PACEMAKERS; DIELECTRIC LOADINGS; IMPLANTABLE ANTENNAS; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MEDICAL DEVICES; MEDICAL TELEMETRY; MULTILAYER TISSUE; RESONANCE CHARACTERISTIC; SINGLE LAYER; TISSUE MODELS;

BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DESIGN; LOADING; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MULTILAYERS; OPTIMIZATION; PACEMAKERS; TISSUE;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 84873398418     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2013.2238499     Document Type: Article

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