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Design and study of a small implantable antenna design for blood glucose monitoring

  • Ayesha Ahmed
    ,
  • Tahera Kalsoom
    ,
  • Masood Ur-Rehman
    ,
  • Naeem Ramzan
    ,
  • Sajjad Karim
    ,
  • Qammer Hussain Abbasi
  • University of Bedfordshire
    ,
  • University of the West of Scotland
    ,
  • University of Essex
    ,
  • Foundation University Islamabad
    ,
  • University of Glasgow
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Abstract

In this paper, a miniaturized implantable antenna with the dimensions of 8×8×1 mm3 has been studied for continuous monitoring of Blood Glucose Levels (BGL). The antenna performance is analyzed numerically for both the free space and implanted operation. The results show that the works excellently in both the scenarios. The antenna has the lowest resonant frequency of 3.58 GHz in free space with a gain 1.18 GHz while it operates at 2.58 GHz with a gain of 4.18 dBi. Good performance, small size and resilience to the human body effects make the antenna to have a good potential use in future implantable glucose monitoring devices.

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Output type

Research Output: Contribution to journal Article Peer-review

Original language

English

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 1146-1151

Journal (Volume, Issue Number)

Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Journal (Volume 33, Issue 10)

Publication milestones

  • Accepted/In press - 27/09/2018
  • Published - 12/10/2018

Publication status

Published - 12/10/2018

ISSN

1054-4887

External Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/624227
  • Scopus: 85060626154

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