Paper Info
Title
Measurement and Simulation Based Study on UWB Channel Characteristics on the Abdomen Area
Abstract
This paper presents a comprehensive simulation and measurement data based study on the UWB on-body radio channel characteristics on the human abdomen area. The main target is to evaluate channel characteristics with several different antenna location options using a recently published ultra wideband (UWB) antenna designed for inbody communications, e.g. for capsule endoscope localization. For the simulations, we use two voxel models and two layer models. Measurement data consists of channel data for seven volunteers having different body size and body composition. The simulation and measurement data is compared and the reason for the differences is discussed. Furthermore, it is shown that the on-body channel characteristics vary significantly depending on the body size and shape of the volunteer if the antenna separation distance is large. With smaller antenna distances, the difference is minor.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/ISMICT.2019.8743940
2019 13th International Symposium on Medical Information and Communication Technology (ISMICT)
Keywords
Field
DocType
capsule endoscopy,radio channel,ulta wideband,wireless body area networks
Voxel,Communication channel,Electronic engineering,Ultra-wideband,Radio channel,Engineering,Channel data,Body size
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2326-828X
978-1-7281-2343-1
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.41
1
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mariella Särestöniemi163.31
Chaïmaâ Kissi211.09
Carlos A. Pomalaza-Raez38117.82
Timo Kumpuniemi4136.63
Marko Sonkki532.18
Sami Myllymäki631.51
Matti Hämäläinen7911140.69
Jari H. Iinatti823041.37