IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine (Jan 2014)
RFID Tag Helix Antenna Sensors for Wireless Drug Dosage Monitoring
Abstract
Miniaturized helix antennas are integrated with drug reservoirs to function as RFID wireless tag sensors for real-time drug dosage monitoring. The general design procedure of this type of biomedical antenna sensors is proposed based on electromagnetic theory and finite element simulation. A cost effective fabrication process is utilized to encapsulate the antenna sensor within a biocompatible package layer using PDMS material, and at the same time form a drug storage or drug delivery unit inside the sensor. The in vitro experiment on two prototypes of antenna sensor-drug reservoir assembly have shown the ability to monitor the drug dosage by tracking antenna resonant frequency shift from 2.4-2.5-GHz ISM band with realized sensitivity of 1.27 μ l/MHz for transdermal drug delivery monitoring and 2.76- μ l/MHz sensitivity for implanted drug delivery monitoring.
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