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Performance of an implanted electrically coupled loop antenna inside human body

Research Abstract
|Implanted antennas are widely used in hyperthermia and biomedical applications. The antenna needs to be extremely small while maintaining a permissible Speci¯c Absorption Rate (SAR) and being able to cope with the detuning e®ects due to the dielectric properties of human body tissues. Most of the proposed antennas for implanted applications are electric ¯eld antennas such as Planner Inverted-F Antennas (PIFA) and micro-strip patch antennas. By minimizing the size of an electric ¯eld antenna, the near zone electric ¯eld will increase, resulting in higher SAR. This work is devoted to design a miniaturized magnetic ¯eld antenna to overcome the above limitations. The proposed electrically coupled loop antenna (ECLA) has high magnetic ¯eld and low electric ¯eld in the near zone and therefore, has a small SAR and is less sensitive to detuning e®ects. ECLA is designed at the Medical Implanted Communication Service (MICS) band with dimensions of (5£5£3 mm3). ECLA has been simulated inside one-layer human body model, three-layer spherical human head model, human head and human body. From the simulation results, ECLA inside the human body has a 5 MHz{3 dB bandwidth, ¡14 dB gain, and radiation e±ciency of 0.525%. The 1 g average SAR inside the human body for 10 mW input power is about 1W/kg which is 7 times lower than the SAR for a patch antenna of the same size with the same accepted power.
Research Authors
Ali Ahmed Younis Ibraheem, Majid Manteghi
Research Department
Research Journal
Progress In Electromagnetics Research
Research Member
Research Pages
195-202
Research Publisher
EMW Publishing
Research Rank
1
Research Vol
145
Research Year
2014