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Design and Simulation of an On-body Microstrip Patch Antenna for Lower Leg Osteoporosis Monitoring

하지 골다공증 감시를 위한 온-바디 마이크로 스트립 패치 안테나의 설계 및 모의실험

  • Received : 2021.07.07
  • Accepted : 2021.08.17
  • Published : 2021.08.31
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Abstract

In this paper, in order to exclude the influence of BAN(Body Area Network) signals operating in the ISM band, the design and optimization process of an on-body microstrip patch antenna operating at 4.567 GHz is presented. The antenna for the monitoring of the lower legs with cancellous osteoporosis is designed to be lightweight and compact with improved return loss and bandwidth. The structure around the applied lower leg consisted of a five-layer dielectric plane. Taking into account losses, the complex dielectric constant of each layer is calculated using multi Cole-Cole model parameters, whereas a unipolar model is used for normal or osteoporotic cancellous bones. The return loss of the coaxial feed antenna on the phantom is -67.26 dB at 4.567 GHz, and in the case of osteoporosis, at the same frequency the return loss difference is 35.88 dB, and the resonance frequency difference is about 7 MHz.

본 논문에서는 ISM 대역에서 동작하는 BAN(Body Area Network) 신호의 영향을 배제하기 위해서 4.567 GHz에서 작동하는 온 바디 마이크로스트립 패치 안테나의 설계 및 최적화 과정을 제시하였다. 하지 해면골 골다공증 감시를 위한 이 안테나는 향상된 반사손실 및 대역폭을 가지면서, 경박단소하도록 설계하였다. 적용된 하지 주변 구조는 5층 유전체 평면으로 구조화 하였으며, 손실을 고려한 각층의 복소유전상수는 다중 Cole-Cole 모델 매개변수를 사용하여 계산하였으나, 정상 및 골다공증 해면골은 단극형 모델을 사용하였다. 팬텀상 동축급전 안테나의 반사손실은 4.567 GHz에서 -67.26 dB이고, 골다공증 경우 동일 주파수에서 반사손실차 𝚫S11=35.88 dB이고, 공진 주파수 차는 약 7 MHz이다.

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