Wireless RF communication in biomedical applications

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Jones, Inke ^a,b   Ricciardi, Lucas ^a   Hall, Leonard ^a   Hansen, Hedley ^c   Varadan, Vijay ^d   Bertram, Chris ^e   Maddocks, Simon ^a   Enderling, Stefan ^a,f   Saint, David ^a   Al Sarawi, Said ^a   Abbott, Derek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b WESTPHALIAN UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^c DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS;

BIOTELEMETRY; RADIO-FREQUENCY (RF) COMMUNICATION;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 41849130607     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/17/1/015050     Document Type: Article

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