Study of attenuation and dispersion through the skin in intrabody communications systems

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 159-165

  Amparo Callejon M ^a   Roa, Laura M ^a   Reina Tosina, Javier ^a   Naranjo Herńandez, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Attenuation; Body sensor networks; Dispersion; Distributed parameter circuit; Electrophysiological properties of the skin; Intrabody communications (IBC); Modulation schemes; Skin propagation model; Transcutaneous admittance

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; DISTRIBUTED-PARAMETER; INTRA-BODY COMMUNICATIONS; MODULATION SCHEMES; TRANSCUTANEOUS;

BODY SENSOR NETWORKS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY;

DISPERSION (WAVES);

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER NETWORK; ELECTRODE; FUNCTIONS OF THE SKIN AND ITS APPENDAGES; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE; METHODOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TELEMETRY;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRODES; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SKIN PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; TELEMETRY;

EID: 84856846353     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2011.2171702     Document Type: Article

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