Circuit-coupled FEM analysis of the electric-field type intra-body communication channel

2009 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, BioCAS 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 221-224

  Xu, Ruoyu ^a   Zhu, Hongjie ^a   Yuan, Jie ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SENSORS; CIRCUIT ELEMENTS; COUPLED FEM; DATA TRANSMISSION; DISTRIBUTED RC; FEM MODELS; FINITE-ELEMENT; HIGH-SPEED; HUMAN FOREARMS; INTRA-BODY COMMUNICATIONS; LOW POWER; PARASITIC EFFECT; SIGNAL PROPAGATION; SIMULATION RESULT; TRANSCEIVER DESIGN;

BIOSENSORS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

COUPLED CIRCUITS;

EID: 77749320424     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BIOCAS.2009.5372045     Document Type: Conference Paper

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