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Influence of Uncertainty of Body Permittivity on Achievable Radiation Efficiency of Implantable Antennas-Stochastic Analysis

Sipus, Zvonimir
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Susnjara, Anna
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Skrivervik, Anja K.  
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October 1, 2021
Ieee Transactions On Antennas And Propagation

Design of medical sensor implants is very challenging due to numerous restrictions in terms of size and biological acceptability. In addition, large absorption and reflection of electromagnetic waves in body tissues significantly degrades the communication link capabilities. The usual assumption in calculating the link budget is that the permittivity and conductivity of the body tissues are known. However, biological tissues show considerable diversity in structure and consequently in dielectric properties. The first aim of this article is to determine how much the uncertainty of the body tissues' constitutive parameters affects the prediction of the achievable radiation efficiency of the implant. The second aim is to understand the loss mechanism and thus which tissue permittivity and/or conductivity has the dominant influence on losses. The analysis is done by considering a spherical multilayer human phantom and applying spherical wave decomposition proposed in a previous article. The stochastic collocation method is used to estimate the uncertainty of power density outside the human body, and sensitivity on the uncertainty of each tissue parameter is performed using the analysis of variance (ANOVA) approach. Several test cases were considered and the results clearly indicate which constitutive parameters have dominant effect on uncertainty.

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research article
DOI
10.1109/TAP.2021.3070594
Web of Science ID

WOS:000704118400074

Author(s)
Sipus, Zvonimir
Susnjara, Anna
Skrivervik, Anja K.  
Poljak, Dragan
Bosiljevac, Marko
Date Issued

2021-10-01

Publisher

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC

Published in
Ieee Transactions On Antennas And Propagation
Volume

69

Issue

10

Start page

6894

End page

6905

Subjects

Engineering, Electrical & Electronic

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Telecommunications

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Engineering

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antennas

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uncertainty

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stochastic processes

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manganese

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permittivity

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conductivity

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propagation losses

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fundamental limits

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implantable antennas

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spherical wave expansion

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stochastic analysis

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stochastic collocation method (scm)

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uncertainty estimation

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dielectric-properties

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biological tissues

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propagation

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