Novel Wearable Antennas for Communication and Medical Systems

"Wearable antennas are meant to be incorporated as part of clothing or placed close to the body. Wearable antennas can be used in countless communication applications including tracking and navigation, medical applications, imaging and detection, RFID, mobile computing and public safety. The book "Novel Wearable Antennas for Communication and Medical Systems" discusses the challenges and technology to develop compact, efficient, wearable antennas. The book begins by presenting elementary communication, electromagnetics and antenna topics needed for engineers and students that do not have a background in design, principles, and features of antennas, printed antennas, wearable antennas, and compact antennas for communication and medical applications. Throughout the book each chapter also covers sufficient mathematical details, physical details and explanations to enable the reader to follow and understand the topics presented. New topics and design methods in the area of wearable antennas, metamaterial antennas, active printed antennas and fractal antennas for communication and medical systems are presented and discussed throughout the book. The book presents computed and measured results in the vicinity of the human body. The book also covers topics such as RF measurement techniques, measurement setups and design considerations. The antennas developed and analyzed in this book were designed and optimized by using 3D full-wave electromagnetics software."--Provided by publisher.

Chapter 1 Wearable Communication and Medical Systems -- chapter 2 Electromagnetic Waves and Transmission Lines for Wearable Communication Systems Designers -- chapter 3 Introduction to Basic Theory for Wireless Wearable Communication System Designers -- chapter 4 Basic Antennas for Wearable Communication Systems -- chapter 5 Wearable Printed Antennas for Wireless Communication Systems -- chapter 6 Wideband Wearable Antennas for Communication and Medical Applications -- chapter 7 Base Station Aperture Antennas for Communication Systems -- chapter 8 Novel Wearable Antennas for Wireless Communication Systems -- chapter 9 Active Wearable Printed Antennas for Medical Applications -- chapter 10 New Wideband Passive and Active Wearable Slot and Notch Antennas for Wireless and Medical Communication Systems -- chapter 11 Microwave Technologies for Wearable Communication Systems -- chapter 12 Body Area Networks (BANs) -- chapter 13 Measurements of Wearable Systems and Antennas.