Summary
International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation
2013
Session Number:TP-2(A)
Session:
Number:TP-2(A)-1
Signal Propagation Analysis for Near-Field Intra-Body Communication Systems
Kohei Nagata, Tomonori Nakamura, Mami Nozawa, Yuich Kado, Hitoshi Shimasaki, Mitsuru Shinagawa,
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Publication Date:2013/10/22
Online ISSN:2188-5079
DOI:10.34385/proc.54.TP-2(A)-1
Summary:
We studied MHz-band communication between a TRX on the surface of the human body (wearable TRX) and a TRX embedded in the environment (embedded TRX). In this work, we propose a medical application to take advantage of MHz-band characteristics on the human body by embedding a TRX into the human body (in-body TRX) and examined the feasibility of in- and on-body communication. We also fabricated an electrically isolated probe (E/O-O/E probe) because conventional probes overestimate the received signal due to additional capacitance. The E/O-O/E probe eliminates this additional capacitance and can measure the received signal precisely. We measured the path loss around a phantom equivalent to a human and found that the proposed application is very useful in terms of engineering output power and received sensitivity.