Potentialities of the pneumatic biosensing bed as a network terminal for ubiquitous health monitoring and medical care

IEEJ Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 632-641

  Kurihara, Yosuke ^a   Watanabe, Kajiro ^a   Kikuchi, Toshiyuki ^b   Namba, Takashi ^c   Tanaka, Hiroshi ^d  

^a HOSEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

^c Hitachi Engineering and Services Co Ltd   (Japan)

^d TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Constraint free biosensing; Health monitoring; Medical care; Ubiquitous

Indexed keywords

BIOSENSORS; HEALTH; MOLECULAR INTERACTIONS; PNEUMATICS; PORT TERMINALS; SENSORS;

BIO SIGNALS; BIOSENSING; BODY MOVEMENTS; CONSTRAINT-FREE BIOSENSING; DATA CENTERS; HEALTH MONITORING; HIGH POTENTIALS; HOME HEALTH MONITORING; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL INFORMATIONS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTIONS; NETWORK TERMINALS; SENSING DEVICES; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROMES; UBIQUITOUS; UBIQUITOUS HEALTH MONITORING; UBIQUITOUS NETWORKS;

STRUCTURES (BUILT OBJECTS);

EID: 55349127831     PISSN: 19314973     EISSN: 19314981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tee.20325     Document Type: Article

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