Signal transmission by galvanic coupling through the human body

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 963-969

  Wegmueller, Marc Simon ^a   Oberle, Michael ^b   Felber, Norbert ^a   Kuster, Niels ^b   Fichtner, Wolfgang ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES IN SOCIETY IT IS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Biomedical sensor network; Electrode characterization; Galvanic coupling; Intrabody communication; Measurement system

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SENSORS; ELECTRODE CHARACTERIZATION; GALVANIC COUPLING; INTRA-BODY COMMUNICATIONS; MEASUREMENT SYSTEM;

BIOSENSORS; COMMUNICATION; CONVOLUTIONAL CODES; MEASUREMENTS; SENSOR NETWORKS;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 77949406255     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2009.2031449     Document Type: Article

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