Ultra wideband 3-D tracking of multiple tags for indoor positioning in medical applications requiring millimeter accuracy

RWW 2012 - Proceedings: 2012 IEEE Topical Conference on Biomedical Wireless Technologies, Networks, and Sensing Systems, BioWireleSS 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 57-60

  Kuhn, Michael J ^a   Mahfouz, Mohamed R ^a   Rowe, Nathan ^a   Elkhouly, Essam ^a   Turnmire, Jonathan ^a   Fathy, Aly E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

surgical navigation; time division multiple access; Ultra wideband; wireless indoor positioning

Indexed keywords

CLOCK-JITTER; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; DYNAMIC EXPERIMENT; HOSPITAL ENVIRONMENT; INDOOR ENVIRONMENT; INDOOR POSITIONING; POSITIONING SYSTEM; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; STATIC AND DYNAMIC; SURGICAL NAVIGATION; WIRELESS POSITIONING SYSTEMS; WIRELESS PROPAGATION;

CIRCUIT OSCILLATIONS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); ERRORS; EXPERIMENTS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; SENSORS; SURGERY; TARGET TRACKING; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

EID: 84860582315     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BioWireless.2012.6172734     Document Type: Conference Paper

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