Investigation into the future of RFID in biomedical applications

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5119, Issue , 2003, Pages 199-209

  Ricciardi, Lucas ^a   Pitz, Inke ^a,b   Al Sarawi, Said F ^a   Varadan, Vijay ^c   Abbott, Derek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b WESTPHALIAN UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coding; Microvalve; RFID; SAW devices

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SURFACE WAVE DEVICES; ACOUSTIC WAVES; ACTUATORS; BAR CODES; BIOSENSORS; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL EQUIPMENT; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; POLYMERS; SUBSTRATES;

MAGNETIC BAR CODE SYSTEMS; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 0042328008     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.501209     Document Type: Conference Paper

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