Recent advances and future trends in low power wireless systems for medical applications

Proceedings - Fifth International Workshop on System-on-Chip for Real-Time Applications, IWSOC 2005

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 476-481

  Townsend, Kenneth A ^a   Haslett, James W ^a   Tsang, Tommy K K ^b   El Gamal, Mourad N ^b   Iniewski, Krzysztof ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY SCAVENGING TECHNIQUES; WIRELESS SYSTEMS; WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES;

MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MEDICINE; PRODUCT DESIGN; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 33748911982     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IWSOC.2005.96     Document Type: Conference Paper

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