Embroidered fully textile wearable antenna for medical monitoring applications

Progress in Electromagnetics Research

Volumn 117, Issue , 2011, Pages 321-337

  Osman, M A R ^a   Rahim, M K A ^a   Samsuri, N A ^a   Salim, H A M ^b   Ali, M F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b SUDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Sudan)

^c EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; TEXTILES; ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB); WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY;

CURRENT DISTRIBUTION; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS; HEALTHY INDIVIDUALS; IMPLICATIONS FOR FUTURES; MONITORING APPLICATIONS; MONITORING TECHNIQUES; TEXTILE MATERIALS; ULTRA-WIDEBAND ANTENNAS;

WEARABLE ANTENNAS;

EID: 79959600094     PISSN: 10704698     EISSN: 15598985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2528/PIER11041208     Document Type: Article

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