Characterization of Wearable and Implanted Antennas: Test Procedure and Range Design

被引：5

作者：

Berkelmann, Lukas ^{[1
]}

Manteuffel, Dirk ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Leibniz Univ Hannover, Inst Microwave & Wireless Syst, D-30167 Hannover, Germany

来源：

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION | 2022年 / 70卷 / 04期

关键词：

Antenna measurements; Antennas; Surface waves; Antenna radiation patterns; Wireless communication; Gain measurement; Loss measurement; implanted antennas; on-body propagation; wearable antennas; wireless body area networks (WBANs); STATISTICAL-ANALYSIS; BODY; PROPAGATION; WAVES;

D O I：

10.1109/TAP.2021.3126386

中图分类号：

TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];

学科分类号：

0808 ; 0809 ;

摘要：

A method for measuring deembedded antenna parameters of wearable and implanted antennas for on-body communications is presented. It consists of a tapered flat phantom in order to characterize an antenna's general ability to excite surface waves traveling along the boundary between body tissue and free space, expressed by an angular on-body antenna gain. The design offers a test zone large enough for most typical wireless body area network devices up to smartphone size while minimizing the required amount of tissue-simulating material. The designed antenna test range is validated in the 2.4 GHz industrial, scientific and medical (ISM) band. To showcase the applicability to a realistic application, different designs of antennas integrated into an implanted pacemaker are characterized by their on-body gain patterns. A comparison of their performance in in situ path-loss measurements reveals a clear relation to the on-body gain patterns and indicates that this parameter is a suitable measure for enabling educated antenna design for on-body applications.

引用

页码：2593 / 2601

页数：9

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