3-D Magnetic Tracking of a Single Subminiature Coil with a Large 2-D Array of Uniaxial Transmitters

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 39, Issue 5 II, 2003, Pages 3295-3297

  Plotkin, Anton ^a   Paperno, Eugene ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Coplanar transmitting coils; Dipole field approximation error; Large transmitting array; Magnetic tracking; Subminiature coil

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; ERROR ANALYSIS; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TRANSMITTERS;

MAGNETIC TRACKING;

ELECTRIC COILS;

EID: 0141952945     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2003.816750     Document Type: Article

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