Equation environment coupling and interference on the electric-field intrabody communication channel

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 59, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2051-2059

  Xu, Ruoyu ^a   Ng, Wai Chiu ^a   Zhu, Hongjie ^b   Shan, Hengying ^a   Yuan, Jie ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

BODY AREA NETWORK; BODY AREA NETWORKS; CAPACITIVE COUPLINGS; CAPACITIVE RETURN PATH; COUPLING EFFECT; DATA RATES; ENVIRONMENT EFFECTS; FEM MODELS; INTRA-BODY COMMUNICATIONS; MEDICAL SENSORS; PARASITIC COUPLINGS; PERSONAL HEALTH CARE; REAL TIME; SENSOR DATA; SIGNAL CIRCUITS; SYSTEMATIC RESEARCH; TRANSMISSION POWER; WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES;

COMMUNICATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HEALTH CARE; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); SENSORS; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ANTENNAS;

ARTICLE; BODY FAT; COMMUNICATION AID; ELECTRIC FIELD INTRABODY COMMUNICATION CHANNEL; ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT; ELECTRODE; ENVIRONMENT COUPLING; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MUSCLE; ORGAN; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SKIN;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; ELECTRIC CAPACITANCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; TELEMETRY; WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84862738485     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2012.2197212     Document Type: Article

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