Simulation study of body surface RF propagation for UWB wearable medical sensors

2nd International Symposium on Applied Sciences in Biomedical and Communication Technologies, ISABEL 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Yang, Wen Bin ^a   Sayrafian Pour, Kamran ^a   Hagedorn, John ^a   Terrill, Judith ^a   Yazdandoost, Kamya Yekeh ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Body area networks; Channel model; Immersive visualization system; Ultra WideBand (UWB)

Indexed keywords

BODY AREA NETWORK; BODY SURFACE; CHANNEL MODEL; HUMAN BODIES; IMMERSIVE VISUALIZATION; IMMERSIVE VISUALIZATION SYSTEM; IN-DEPTH UNDERSTANDING; MEASUREMENT EXPERIMENTS; MEDICAL SENSORS; PATH-LOSS MODEL; PHYSICAL MEASUREMENT; PROPAGATION BEHAVIOR; PROPAGATION MEDIA; RF PROPAGATION; SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENT; SIMULATION PLATFORM; SIMULATION STUDIES; TRANSCEIVER DESIGN; UWB CHANNEL; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; VITAL SIGN;

BROADBAND NETWORKS; SENSORS; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUALIZATION;

ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

EID: 77949465028     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISABEL.2009.5373640     Document Type: Conference Paper

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