Channel models for medical implant communication

International Journal of Wireless Information Networks

Volumn 17, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 105-112

  Sayrafian Pour, Kamran ^a   Yang, Wen Bin ^a   Hagedorn, John ^a   Terrill, Judith ^a   Yekeh Yazdandoost, Kamya ^b   Hamaguchi, Kiyoshi ^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; Implant communication system

Indexed keywords

BODY AREA NETWORK; CHANNEL CHARACTERISTICS; CHANNEL MODEL; HUMAN BODIES; IMMERSIVE VISUALIZATION; IMPLANT COMMUNICATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL IMPLANT COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMPLANTS; MEDICAL SCIENCE; NATURAL INTERACTIONS; PHYSICAL EXPERIMENTS; PROPAGATION MEDIA; RF PROPAGATION; SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENT; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS;

DATA HANDLING; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUALIZATION;

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 78650898952     PISSN: 10689605     EISSN: 15728129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10776-010-0124-y     Document Type: Article

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