A closed-form formula for magnetic dipole localization by measurement of its magnetic field and spatial gradients

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 3291-3293

  Nara, Takaaki ^a   Suzuki, Satoshi ^b   Ando, Shigeru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b SONY CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gradiometer; Inverse problem; Localization; Magnetic dipole; Radio frequency identification (RFID) tag

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETOMETERS; SENSORS; TENSORS;

GRADIENT TENSORS; MAGNETIC DIPOLE; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID) TAG;

MAGNETIC MOMENTS;

EID: 33846593751     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2006.879151     Document Type: Article

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