Wearable Medical Systems for p-Health

IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 1, Issue , 2008, Pages 62-74

  Teng, Xiao Fei ^a   Poon, Carmen C Y ^a   Zhang, Yuan Ting ^a   Bonato, Paolo ^b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b and Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Home Base Program   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy scavenging; intelligent biomedical clothing; motion artifact; pervasive computing; wearable healthcare systems

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW; TELEMEDICINE;

ANIMALS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 77949422801     PISSN: 19373333     EISSN: 19411189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/RBME.2008.2008248     Document Type: Article

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