{"title":"Gain-Enhanced Wideband Antenna Sensor Integrated with CMOS-Based Transceiver Chip for Human Respiratory Monitoring in Telemedicine Diagnosis","authors":"Wensong Wang, Zhongyuan Fang, Kai Tang, Xi-Xi Wang, Zhou Shu, Yuanjin Zheng","doi":"10.1109/imbioc52515.2022.9790161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/imbioc52515.2022.9790161","url":null,"abstract":"A compact gain-enhanced antenna sensor integrated with 65-nm CMOS based transceiver chip is proposed for respiratory monitoring in telemedicine diagnosis with a wide bandwidth, high gain. To enhance the gain, a metasurface lens and| U-shaped slot are loaded on the Vivaldi antenna, which increases the forward gain. The antenna properties have a contribution to improving the detection capability of the respiration radar ranging from 14 to 16 GHz. The simulation and measurement have been performed to evaluate its characteristics and its performance in supporting respiration radar operation. As a proof of concept, a prototype is designed, fabricated, and tested. A good agreement is observed between measurement and simulation results. It achieves an impedance bandwidth from 11.5 to 21.3 GHz (59.76% FBW) for a −10-dB reflection coefficient with port isolation higher than 24.92 dB. The realized gain is up to 10.5 dBi, the radiation efficiency is 88.01-90.02%, and the envelope correlation coefficient (ECC) is less than 0.00122 among antenna elements. Integrated with the designed and fabricated transceiver based on the 65 nm CMOS processing, the test circuit and system are built up. The experiment is conducted by using the respiration radar. The extracted phase information from the raw data shows that the proposed wideband antenna sensor can be used to identify the reflected signal from the chest wall at inhaling and exhaling phase of respiration activity.","PeriodicalId":305829,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Biomedical Conference (IMBioC)","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115326459","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Importance of Sex-Based Modelling of the Pelvic Region for Microwave Medical Applications","authors":"Ali Farshkaran, E. Porter","doi":"10.1109/IMBioC52515.2022.9790287","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMBioC52515.2022.9790287","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses sex-based considerations in the modelling of the pelvic region, to support the design and development of microwave bladder-based technologies. Accounting for sex-based differences in biomedical research is important to ensuring that the end-use technologies are fully effective across individuals from both sexes. In this paper, we discuss anatomical and physiological differences in the pelvic region, along with specific differences that affect dielectric properties of tissues and thus microwave scattering.","PeriodicalId":305829,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Biomedical Conference (IMBioC)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132569076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Haerim Kim, Jangyong Ahn, Jaewon Rhee, Seungyoung Ahn
{"title":"Application of Wireless Power Transfer Technology to Implantable Medical Devices","authors":"Haerim Kim, Jangyong Ahn, Jaewon Rhee, Seungyoung Ahn","doi":"10.1109/IMBioC52515.2022.9790118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMBioC52515.2022.9790118","url":null,"abstract":"Recently, implantable medical devices (IMDs) have been developed and used in humans to increase the effectiveness and convenience of medical devices. However, even in the case of IMD, due to the limitation of battery life, it is necessary to replace the battery through a short cycle and reoperation. Research is being conducted to apply wireless power transfer (WPT) technology to the IMD to reduce the reoperation cycle and reduce the battery size. Due to IMD being inserted into the human body, there are many considerations to apply WPT. In this paper, the basic principle of WPT and design conditions for the WPT system for IMD are explained. We subsequently provide a review and survey of research on WPT systems for IMD. This paper focuses on the design method and design direction of the WPT system for IMD.","PeriodicalId":305829,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Biomedical Conference (IMBioC)","volume":"98 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122655694","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yangtao Ye, Lina Ma, Jingtao Liu, Zesheng Zhang, Changzhan Gu, Jun-Fa Mao
{"title":"A Novel Non-Contact Drunkenness Monitoring Technique Based on A 24-GHz Interferometric Radar System","authors":"Yangtao Ye, Lina Ma, Jingtao Liu, Zesheng Zhang, Changzhan Gu, Jun-Fa Mao","doi":"10.1109/IMBioC52515.2022.9790121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMBioC52515.2022.9790121","url":null,"abstract":"Conventional intoxication detection is based on Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC), which is assessed by techniques including blood sample analysis and breathalyzers. To address the drawbacks of existing detection methods such as intrusive contact and requiring subjects' cooperation, this paper proposes a novel drunkenness monitoring approach based on a custom-designed K-band 24-GHz interferometric radar system and Heart Rate Variability (HRV) extraction algorithm. Experiments were conducted on subjects before and after alcohol intake to demonstrate the feasibility of the HRV frequency domain analysis technique to detect intoxication. The combination of an interferometric radar system and HRV analysis has the potential for continuous, non-contact, and non-sensory drunk driving monitoring.","PeriodicalId":305829,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Biomedical Conference (IMBioC)","volume":"440 2-3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123450661","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"PAPR reduction technology for ST-OCDM based joint radar-communication signals","authors":"Fan Luo, Jingqi Wang","doi":"10.1109/IMBioC52515.2022.9790205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMBioC52515.2022.9790205","url":null,"abstract":"The joint radar-communication (JRC) system plays an important role in maximized resource utilization. The scale transform-orthogonal chirp division multiplexing (ST-OCDM) signal has become a promising candidate for JRC systems due to its orthogonal chirps with adjustable chirp rate that provide higher flexibility than traditional JRC signals. However, ST-OCDM based JRC signal suffers from the high peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) problem. This paper introduces several peak clipping methods to solve this problem. The comparison of simulation shows that the multiple scaling signal to clipping noise ratio (MS-SCR) CR technology has the best peak clipping performance.","PeriodicalId":305829,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Biomedical Conference (IMBioC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130299108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Banerjee, Shubhadip Paul, N. Tiwari, M. J. Akhtar
{"title":"An Improved RF Sensor to Determine Solute Concentration Level in Simulated Body Fluids","authors":"A. Banerjee, Shubhadip Paul, N. Tiwari, M. J. Akhtar","doi":"10.1109/IMBioC52515.2022.9790289","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMBioC52515.2022.9790289","url":null,"abstract":"An improved design topology comprising of a modified CSRR based air-via incorporated structure is proposed to determine solute concentration variations in Simulated Body Fluids (SBF). The proposed sensor has circular aligned vias surrounding the sensing region for high E-field confinement minimizing field scattering near the sensing area. The sensor can sense liquid samples having permittivity ($varepsilon_{mathrm{r}}$) up to the dielectric of blood and blood plasma very comparable to SBF with improved characterization for high loss samples. Placing a sample through a 1.5mm fluidic channel within the substrate increases the interaction with field confined within the sensing structure and helps determine loss content in sample with higher accuracy. The sensor is fabricated on Rogers 6002 ($varepsilon_{mathrm{r}}=2.2$) having a thickness 3.75 mm so that a flexible tube of 1.5mm can be placed across the sensing region and simulated using CST MWS. The measured result indicates a percentage variation of 3.5dB/gm of NaCl in SBF.","PeriodicalId":305829,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Biomedical Conference (IMBioC)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128342508","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Assessment of Area-Average Absorbed Power Density on Realistic Tissue Models at mmWaves","authors":"A. Kapetanović, G. Sacco, D. Poljak, M. Zhadobov","doi":"10.1109/IMBioC52515.2022.9790150","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMBioC52515.2022.9790150","url":null,"abstract":"Currently, most state-of-the-art research in computational dosimetry utilizes flat-surface tissue models to simplify the problem geometry and thus mitigate computational complexity. However, depending on the ratio of the penetration depth and the curvature radius, this may lead to a non-correct estimation of the power absorbed by the tissues due to constructive/destructive interference. In this study, we propose an accurate evaluation of the area-average absorbed power density in curved tissue-equivalent models by computing the surface integral of the normal component of the absorbed power density vector field. The numerical analysis is performed for plane wave exposure of an ear model at 60 GHz. We also investigate the effect of the averaging area shape on the absorbed power density by considering 1 cm2 square- and disk-shaped averaging surfaces. Results show a substantial relative difference of 14 % in the area-averaged absorbed power density over a disk-shaped averaging surface between transverse electric and magnetic polarization, with the reference being the value of the area-averaged absorbed power density for a planar homogeneous model and normal incidence. By using the same reference value, negligible differences of 1.81 % and 0.92 % for transverse electric and magnetic polarization, respectively, are present when the averaging area shape changes. According to the studied exposure scenarios, the area-averaged absorbed power density variations as a function of the averaging surface geometry are less significant than those related to the polarization of the incident field.","PeriodicalId":305829,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Biomedical Conference (IMBioC)","volume":"99 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117222953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jasmine Boparai, Yanis Jallouli, O. Miller, Rachel Tchinov, M. Popovic
{"title":"Microwave Characterization and Probe Sensing: Parametric Study with Skin Phantom Thickness","authors":"Jasmine Boparai, Yanis Jallouli, O. Miller, Rachel Tchinov, M. Popovic","doi":"10.1109/IMBioC52515.2022.9790129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMBioC52515.2022.9790129","url":null,"abstract":"Novel microwave and millimeter-wave devices have been recently investigated as promising diagnostic aids for skin anomaly detection. These devices rely on knowledge of skin dielectric parameters. Skin thickness varies with body location, and, hence, the goal of our work is to characterize the dielectric skin properties in the microwave range as a function of skin thickness. To do so systematically, and in a controlled laboratory environment, we developed skin phantoms models ranging from 0.5 mm to 5 mm in thickness, with 0.5 mm increments. These phantoms are placed on a fat-mimicking material and then characterized with the Keysight slim form probe over the 0.5–2.6 GHz range. Our results indicate that skin thickness, usually known from extensive anatomical resources, should be taken into account for proper interpretation of eventual dielectric characterization in vivo, as the probe's sensing volume is likely to include a complex, multi-tissue dielectric distribution.","PeriodicalId":305829,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Biomedical Conference (IMBioC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126012223","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Speech Acquisition and Recovery Based on Piezoelectric Effect in the mmWave Band","authors":"Kaidi Zheng, Chao Wang, Zhanglei Shu, Feng Lin","doi":"10.1109/IMBioC52515.2022.9790291","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMBioC52515.2022.9790291","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a novel speech acquisition method to directly sense the sound waves travelling through the air rather than leveraging the sound-induced vibration. The rationale is that the piezoelectric film can cause changes to the incident mmWave signals due to the piezoelectric effect when sound waves hit the film. Moreover, we find that the mmWave signals can penetrate common soundproofing materials, which pave the way for through-obstacle speech recovery. Based on this, we propose a new mechanism to decode the phase-demodulated audio signals from the reflected mmWave signals. To combat the penetrating and propagation loss of mmWave signals, we further developed a speech enhancement method based on the deep neural network. The network can filter the raw recovered speech and reconstruct clean speech with higher speech quality and intelligibility. We evaluate the proposed system on a public dataset. The results indicate that the system can recover high-quality and intelligible speech from a distance of 5m in the case of occlusion.","PeriodicalId":305829,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Biomedical Conference (IMBioC)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122195701","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Complementary Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition Based Microwave Induced Thermoacoustic Image Reconstruction Method","authors":"Xin Shang, Shuangli Liu, Weijia Wan, Lei Liu","doi":"10.1109/IMBioC52515.2022.9790144","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMBioC52515.2022.9790144","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we adopt a signal processing method based on complementary ensemble empirical mode decomposition (CEEMD) and singular value decomposition (SVD) to reconstruct the thermoacoustic image. Thermoacoustic signals are easily interfered by factors such as temperature and mixed with incoherent noise during propagation, both CEEMD and SVD have a good effect in extracting the main components of the signal and removing noise. The main idea of this method is denoising artifacts by decomposing the ultrasound signal received by the sensor into a series of intrinsic mode functions (IMFs), choosing the effective IMFs based on SVD. We tested a single tumor in the homogeneous media by numerical simulation. The peak signal-to-noise ratios of the thermoacoustic images reconstructed by the proposed method, and the other three methods are compared. The results indicate that the method of CEEMD combined with SVD has better performance. Validation based on experimental data will be carried out in the follow-up work.","PeriodicalId":305829,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Biomedical Conference (IMBioC)","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122983320","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}