A capacitive intrabody communication channel from 100 kHz to 100 MHz

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 61, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3280-3289

  Lucev, Željka ^a   Krois, Igor ^a   Cifrek, Mario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Body area network; body coupled communication; capacitive coupling; intrabody communication (IBC) channel; transmission characteristic measurement

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); TRANSMITTERS;

BODY AREA NETWORK; CAPACITIVE COUPLINGS; CHANNEL TRANSMISSION; ELECTRODE ARRANGEMENT; FREQUENCY RANGES; GROUND PLANES; HUMAN BODIES; INTRA-BODY COMMUNICATIONS; RECEIVED SIGNALS; SIGNAL TRANSMISSION; SURROUNDING ENVIRONMENT; TRANSMISSION CHARACTERISTICS; TRANSMISSION GAIN; TRANSMISSION PATHS;

SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

EID: 84869492333     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2012.2205491     Document Type: Article

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