Design of an implantable broadband antenna for medical telemetry applications

2013 7th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1133-1136

  Vidal, N ^a   Lopez Villegas, J M ^a   Curto, S ^a   Colomer, J ^a   Ahyoune, S ^a   Garcia, A ^a   Sieiro, J J ^a   Ramos, F M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b Francisco Albero SA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biomedical telemetry; implantable antenna; low temperature co fired ceramic (LTCC)

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL TELEMETRY; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN (FDTD) METHODS; IMPLANTABLE ANTENNAS; IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICES; LOW TEMPERATURE CO FIRED CERAMIC(LTCC); LOW-TEMPERATURE CO-FIRED CERAMIC TECHNOLOGIES; MEDICAL IMPLANT COMMUNICATION SERVICES; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE;

BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT; CERAMIC PRODUCTS; COMMUNICATION; DESIGN; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; FREQUENCY BANDS; TEMPERATURE;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 84881271625     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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