Characteristics of Human Skin Impedance Including at Biological Active Points

IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences

Volumn E86-A, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1476-1479

  Lee, Jeong Woo ^a   Kim, Dong Man ^a   Park, Il Yong ^a   Park, Hee Joon ^a   Cho, Jin Ho ^b  

^a Kyungpook National University   (South Korea)

^b Kyungpook National University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Biological active point; Human skin; Impedance modeling

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; SKIN; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

BIOLOGICAL ACTIVE POINTS;

ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0141937880     PISSN: 09168508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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