An ultra-wideband wire spiral antenna for in-body communications using different material matching layers

2014 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 6985-6988

  Khaleghi, Ali ^a,b   Balasingham, Ilangko ^a,c   Chavez Santiago, Raul ^a,c  

^a OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b K N TOOSI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; PERMITTIVITY; SPIRAL ANTENNAS; ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB); WAVE PROPAGATION; WIRE;

ELECTRIC FIELD INTENSITIES; HIGH ENERGY DENSITIES; IN-BODY COMMUNICATIONS; MATCHING CIRCUIT; MATCHING LAYER; PERMITTIVITY VALUES; WAVE PENETRATION; WIRE ANTENNAS;

MICROWAVE ANTENNAS;

AMBULATORY MONITORING; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; COMPUTER NETWORK; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEVICES; ELECTRICITY; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE; PROCEDURES; TRANSDUCER; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION;

COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRICITY; ELECTRONICS, MEDICAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; TRANSDUCERS; WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84929497716     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EMBC.2014.6945235     Document Type: Conference Paper

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