Simple electrical model and initial experiments for intra-body communications

Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Engineering the Future of Biomedicine, EMBC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 697-700

  Gao, Y M ^a,b   Pun, S H ^a,c   Du, M ^a,b   Mak, P U ^a,c   Vai, M I ^a,c  

^a Key Laboratory of Medical Instrumentation and Pharmaceutical Technology   (China)

^b FUZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MACAU   (Macao)

Author keywords

Electrical model; Experiments; Galvanic coupling type; Intra body communication

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; HOME HEALTH CARE; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL);

COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUES; CONDUCTIVE PROPERTIES; ELECTRICAL MODELING; GALVANIC COUPLING; IMPLANTABLE DEVICES; INTRA-BODY COMMUNICATIONS; PHYSIOLOGIC PARAMETERS; TELEMEDICINE SYSTEMS;

WEARABLE SENSORS;

EID: 77950974648     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5332704     Document Type: Conference Paper

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