Meandered conformai antenna for ISM-band ingestible capsule communication systems

The wireless capsule has been used to measure physiological parameters in the gastrointestinal tract where communication from in-body to external receiver is necessary using a miniaturized antenna with high gain and onmidirectional radiation pattern. This paper presents a meandered conformal antenna with center frequency of 433 MHz for a wireless link between an in-body capsule system and an ex-body receiver system. The antenna is wrapped around the wireless capsule, which provides extra space for other circuits and sensors inside the capsule as well as allows it having larger dimensions compared to inner antennas. This paper analyses return loss, radiation pattern, antenna gain, and propagation loss using pork as the gastrointestinal tissue simulating medium. From the radiation pattern and return loss results, the antenna shows an omni-directional radiation pattern and an ultrawide bandwidth of 124.4 MHz (371.6 to 496 MHz) for VSWR <; 2. Experimental results shows that the path loss is 17.24 dB for an in-body propagation distance of 140 mm.

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