Electric-field intrabody communication channel modeling with finite-element method

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 58, Issue 3 PART 1, 2011, Pages 705-712

  Xu, Ruoyu ^a   Zhu, Hongjie ^a   Yuan, Jie ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Body area network (BAN); capacitive return path; electric field intrabody communication (EF IBC); finite element method (FEM); intrabody communication (IBC)

Indexed keywords

BODY AREA NETWORKS; CAPACITIVE RETURN PATH; ELECTRIC-FIELD INTRABODY COMMUNICATION (EF-IBC); FINITE-ELEMENT METHOD (FEM); INTRA-BODY COMMUNICATIONS;

BIOSENSORS; COMMUNICATION; COUPLED CIRCUITS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

ARTICLE; CAPACITANCE BLOOD VESSEL; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRONIC FIELD INTRABODY COMMUNICATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; PHYSICAL MODEL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SIMULATION; WIDE AREA NETWORK;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; CLOTHING; COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTRONICS, MEDICAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; MONITORING, AMBULATORY;

EID: 79952121976     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2010.2093933     Document Type: Article

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