The RFID technology for neurosciences: Feasibility of Limbs' monitoring in sleep diseases

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 37-43

  Occhiuzzi, Cecilia ^a   Marrocco, Gaetano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Accelerometer; RF identification (RFID); Sensor network; Sleep disorder; Tag antenna

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETERS; ANTENNAS; SENSOR NETWORKS; SLEEP RESEARCH;

HUMAN BODY MOVEMENT; INERTIAL SWITCH; MECHANICAL MODEL; RF IDENTIFICATIONS; RFID TECHNOLOGY; SLEEP DISORDERS; TAG ANTENNA; WIRELESS MONITORING;

RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID);

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIMB; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; PARASOMNIA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; TELEMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; EXTREMITIES; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTION; NOCTURNAL MYOCLONUS SYNDROME; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; RADIO WAVES; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; TELEMETRY;

EID: 76849089171     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2009.2028081     Document Type: Article

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