A radio channel model for in-body wireless communications

Abstract

Propagation model plays a very important role in designing wireless communication systems. Transmitting and receiving data from/to inside the body from tissue implanted medical devices are of great interest for wireless medical applications due to the promising of different clinical usage to promote a patient healthcare and comfort from one side and the most effective treatment for medical conditions from other side. The number of available electronic implantable devices is increasing every year. The complexity and functionality of these devices are also increasing at a significant rate. Hence, a reliable and efficient communication link is necessary to guarantee the best connection from/to an implanted device. In this paper we present a radio channel model for body implanted device over Medical Implant Communications Service (MICS) band in the frequency range of 402-405 MHz. © 2012 ICST Institute for Computer Science, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering.