Design of implanted RFID tags for passive sensing of human body: The STENTag

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 60, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 3146-3154

  Occhiuzzi, Cecilia ^a   Contri, Giordano ^a   Marrocco, Gaetano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biosensor; implantable biomedical device; passive sensing; RFID

Indexed keywords

DESIGN METHODOLOGY; EFFECTIVE PERMITTIVITY; HUMAN BODIES; IMPLANTABLE BIOMEDICAL DEVICES; IMPLANTED ANTENNAS; MEDICAL CASE; NUMERICAL PROCESSING; PASSIVE SENSING; PATHOLOGICAL PROCESS; RF-ID TAGS;

BIOSENSORS; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID);

DESIGN;

EID: 84863654007     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2012.2198189     Document Type: Article

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