Electric field distributions of wearable devices using the human body as a transmission channel

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2080-2087

  Fujii, Katsuyuki ^a   Takahashi, Masaharu ^b   Ito, Koichi ^b  

^a NANZAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Finite difference time domain (FDTD); Human body; Intrabody communication; Personal area network; Phantom

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC COMMUNICATION; INTRABODY COMMUNICATION; PERSONAL AREA NETWORK; TRANSMISSION CHANNEL;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING; TISSUE; WEARABLE COMPUTERS;

ELECTRIC FIELDS;

EID: 34547109623     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2007.900226     Document Type: Article

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