Equivalent circuit modeling of various miniaturized antennas for wireless capsule endoscopy (WCE) applications
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Balaka Biswas
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Ayan Karmakar
Abstract
This article presents different equivalent circuit modeling of miniaturized wireless capsule endoscopy (WCE) antennas. Here, three heterogeneous WCE antenna designs have been considered for the case study purpose in embedded and conformal architecture format. These WCE antennas are unique in respect to their designs, substrate material, characteristics, implementation of fractal geometries, etc. To understand the insight device physics of the structure the two independent modeling approaches (TL-based and CLR-based) are presented here without much complicated mathematical calculations. Additionally, the quad Cole-Cole model is discussed for parametric representation in different types of dispersion for biological tissues. Finally, a comparison table is given with TL-based modeling and CLR-modeling of three antennas.
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Research ethics: Not applicable.
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Informed consent: Not applicable.
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Author contributions: All authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this manuscript and approved its submission.
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Use of Large Language Models, AI and Machine Learning Tools: None declared.
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Conflict of interest: The authors state no conflict of interest.
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Research funding: None declared.
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Data availability: Not applicable.
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