Moment-method analysis of normal-to-body antennas using a Green's function approach

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 60, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 4259-4270

  Keshmiri, Farshad ^a   Craeye, Christophe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Body area networks (BANs); Green's function; method of moments (MoM); modified addition theorem; mutual coupling; on body dipoles

Indexed keywords

ADDITION THEOREM; BODY AREA NETWORK; CIRCULAR SHAPE; CROSS SECTION; CST MICROWAVE STUDIO; CYLINDRICAL WAVE; HUMAN BODIES; INTERFERENCE EFFECTS; ISM BANDS; MUTUAL COUPLING; ON-BODY; PATH LOSS; POINT SOURCES; RADIALLY POLARIZED;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); GREEN'S FUNCTION; METHOD OF MOMENTS; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS);

DIPOLE ANTENNAS;

EID: 84866027903     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2012.2207053     Document Type: Article

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