Precise Estimation of Cellular Radio Electromagnetic Field in Elevators and EMI Impact on Implantable Cardiac Pacemakers

Harris, Louis-Ray; Hikage, Takashi; Nojima, Toshio

doi:10.1587/transele.e92.c.1182

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“…Previously, these distances were used in Ref. [10] to calculate the reference values (0 dB point) for a dipole antenna in free-space, that is substituted an EMI test without pacemaker and torso model. The calculations were made in the direction of the plane perpendicular to the antenna axis.…”

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Estimation of EMI Impact by Cellular Radio on Implantable Cardiac Pacemakers in Elevator Using EMF Distributions Inside Human Body

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Hikage

Nojima

et al. 2010

IEICE Trans. Commun.

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SUMMARYThe purpose of this study is to estimate the possible effect of cellular radio on implantable cardiac pacemakers in elevators. We previously investigated pacemaker EMI in elevator by examining the Efield distribution of horizontal plane at the height of expected for implanted pacemakers inside elevators. In this paper, we introduce our method for estimating EMI impact to implantable cardiac pacemakers using EMF distributions inside the region of the human body in which pacemakers are implanted. Simulations of a human phantom in an elevator are performed and histograms are derived from the resulting EMF distributions. The computed results of field strengths are compared with a certain reference level determined from experimentally obtained maximum interference distance of implantable cardiac pacemakers. This enables us to carry out a quantitative evaluation of the EMI impact to pacemakers by cellular radio transmission. This paper uses a numerical phantom model developed based on an European adult male. The simulations evaluate EMI on implantable cardiac pacemakers in three frequency bands. As a result, calculated E-field strengths are sufficiently low to cause the pacemaker to malfunction in the region examined. key words: implantable cardiac pacemakers, cellular radios, elevator, finite difference time domain method, numerical phantom model

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Section: Histogram Estimation Methods For Pacemaker Emimentioning

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“…We have already carried out numerical simulations on homogeneous human phantom models and some elevator models to investigate the EMI impact to implantable cardiac pacemakers in elevators; we have examined the E-field distribution on freespace inside elevator [9], [10]. However, implantable cardiac pacemaker is put inside human body.…”

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