TY - CHAP
T1 - Rethinking antenna requirements for medical implant systems
AU - Scanlon, W. G.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Medical implant communication service (MICS) devices are active radio frequency (RF) transmitters operating in the 402 MHz region. The MICS service is conceived as a point to point communication link between a body implanted medical device and a nearby (up to around 3 m) base station, with a typical usage scenario of a bed side or home unit or physician's office. The secondary user status of the MICS band has led to out-of-body effective isotropic radiated power (EIRP) limitations that, as shown below, are marginal for the downlink (base unit to implant) path, but not for the uplink (implant to base unit) path. Since MICS was introduced, there have been several developments in medical body area network technology, including advances in antennas, ultra-low power RF transceivers and in the networking requirements of applications. It is now expected that medical implants will be required to participate in more extensive BAN deployments, involving one or more implants, body surface sensors and controllers, and as per the original MICS concept, off-body (nearby) units.
AB - Medical implant communication service (MICS) devices are active radio frequency (RF) transmitters operating in the 402 MHz region. The MICS service is conceived as a point to point communication link between a body implanted medical device and a nearby (up to around 3 m) base station, with a typical usage scenario of a bed side or home unit or physician's office. The secondary user status of the MICS band has led to out-of-body effective isotropic radiated power (EIRP) limitations that, as shown below, are marginal for the downlink (base unit to implant) path, but not for the uplink (implant to base unit) path. Since MICS was introduced, there have been several developments in medical body area network technology, including advances in antennas, ultra-low power RF transceivers and in the networking requirements of applications. It is now expected that medical implants will be required to participate in more extensive BAN deployments, involving one or more implants, body surface sensors and controllers, and as per the original MICS concept, off-body (nearby) units.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/79959647183
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:79959647183
SN - 9788882020743
T3 - Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EUCAP 2011
SP - 3491
EP - 3492
BT - Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EUCAP 2011
T2 - 5th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EUCAP 2011
Y2 - 10 April 2011 through 15 April 2011
ER -