Antennas and propagation of implanted RFIDs for pervasive healthcare applications

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 98, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1648-1655

  Sani, Andrea ^a   Rajab, Marie ^a   Foster, Robert ^a   Hao, Yang ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Body area network; healthcare applications; implanted antenna; radio frequency identification (RFID)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL ELECTROMAGNETICS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); HEALTH CARE; MOBILE ANTENNAS; RADIO WAVES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION; BODY AREA NETWORK; ELECTROMAGNETIC MODELING; HEALTH CARE APPLICATION; HEALTHCARE ENVIRONMENTS; IMPLANTED ANTENNAS; LIMITED COMMUNICATION RANGE; PERVASIVE HEALTHCARE APPLICATION;

RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID);

EID: 77956061874     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2010.2051010     Document Type: Article

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