title: Study of performance and propagation characteristics of wire and planar structures around human body.
abstract: Continued miniaturization of electronic devices and technological advancements in wireless communications has made wearable body-centric telemedicine systems viable. Antennas play a crucial role in characterizing the efficiency and reliability of these systems. The performance characteristics such as the radiation pattern, gain, efficiency of the antennas get adversely affected due to the presence of lossy human body tissues. In this paper we investigate the above mentioned performance parameters and radio frequency transmission properties of wire and planar structures operating at ISM frequency band of 2.40-2.50 GHz in the proximity of human body.
authors.affiliation: Embedded and Adaptive Computing Group, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX 75080, USA. alp052000@utdallas.edu
authors.forename: A L Praveen
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Aroul
authors.forename: Dinesh
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bhatia
mesh_terms: D004867:Equipment Design; D006801:Humans; D008904:Miniaturization; D059015:Wireless Technology