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Link budget investigations for ingestible antenna in MedRadio band

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  • @ARTICLE{10.4108/eai.14-10-2015.2262000,
    author={Dimitrios Galanis and Konstantinos Psathas and Konstantina Nikita},
    title={Link budget investigations for ingestible antenna in MedRadio band},
    journal={EAI Endorsed Transactions on Cognitive Communications},
    volume={2},
    number={9},
    publisher={ACM},
    journal_a={COGCOM},
    year={2015},
    month={12},
    keywords={biocompatible ingestible antennas, wireless capsule endoscopy, on-body antennas, medical device radiocommunication (medradio) services, biomedical telemetry},
    doi={10.4108/eai.14-10-2015.2262000}
}
  • Dimitrios Galanis
    Konstantinos Psathas
    Konstantina Nikita
    Year: 2015
    Link budget investigations for ingestible antenna in MedRadio band
    COGCOM
    EAI
    DOI: 10.4108/eai.14-10-2015.2262000
Dimitrios Galanis1,*, Konstantinos Psathas1, Konstantina Nikita1
  • 1: NTUA
*Contact email: dgalanis@biosim.ntua.gr

Abstract

Ingestible Medical Devices (IMDs) have given a strong boost to the health sector by creating new horizons in the prevention, monitoring and treatment of diseases in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. In this study, we numerically assess the telemetry link between an ingestible antenna and an on-body antenna which acts as a repeater. Both antennas can be incorporated in a complete Wireless Capsule Endoscopy (WCE) system. Two different scenarios are examined to assess the performance of the ingestible antenna inside the small intestine of an anatomical human model and the link with the on-body antenna. The ingestible antenna is placed in vertical and horizontal position inside the small intestine. It is found that a reliable communication link can be established, regardless the antenna orientation inside the small intestine, for a net input power of the ingestible antenna significantly lower than the maximum allowable power recommended by the IEEE safety guidelines

Keywords
biocompatible ingestible antennas, wireless capsule endoscopy, on-body antennas, medical device radiocommunication (medradio) services, biomedical telemetry
Published
2015-12-22
Publisher
ACM
http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/eai.14-10-2015.2262000

Copyright © 2015 D. Galanis et al., licensed to EAI. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unlimited use, distribution and reproduction in any medium so long as the original work is properly cited.