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Design, realisation and evaluation of a liquid hollow torso phantom appropriate for wearable antenna assessment

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posted on 2017-05-15, 10:14 authored by Aris Tsolis, Anastasios Paraskevopoulos, Antonis A. Alexandridis, William WhittowWilliam Whittow, Alford ChaurayaAlford Chauraya, J. C. Vardaxoglou
This paper examines the design, realization and evaluation of a lightweight and low cost hollow oval cross-section torso phantom appropriate for wearable antenna performance assessment. The phantom consists of an empty inner space (hollow) surrounded by a shell with double plastic walls between which there is a tissue simulating liquid. The phantom’s plastic shell is made of a low loss cast acrylic and the liquid is a commercially available one with properties calibrated for the frequency range of 2 - 6 GHz. The proposed phantom is compared, through simulations, with a full liquid torso phantom and a heterogeneous anthropomorphic voxel phantom. Additionally, the fabricated phantom is compared with human bodies and a homogeneous anthropomorphic solid phantom, through measurements. The phantom performance is tested in terms of electric field distribution of a wearable antenna on its surface and the path loss between two wearable antennas, on either side of the phantom. It is proved that the hollow phantom performance approximates the full liquid phantom when an RF absorbing material is placed in the central hollow region. The phantom performance in terms of S11 wearable antenna measurements is evaluated and found in good agreement with real human bodies in the examined frequency range (2 - 6 GHz). The far field wearable antenna performance of the proposed phantom shows deviation in gain less than 1.5 dB, compared with anthropomorphic phantom.

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  • Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering

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IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation

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TSOLIS, A. ...et al., 2017. Design, realisation and evaluation of a liquid hollow torso phantom appropriate for wearable antenna assessment. IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation, 11 (9), pp. 1308–1316.

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© Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

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2017

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This paper is a postprint of a paper submitted to and accepted for publication in IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation and is subject to Institution of Engineering and Technology Copyright. The copy of record will be available at the IET Digital Library.

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1751-8725

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1751-8733

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  • en

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