Dual-band planar bowtie monopole for a fall-detection radar and telemetry system

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 11, Issue , 2012, Pages 1698-1701

  Soh, Ping Jack ^a,b   Mercuri, Marco ^a   Pandey, Gokarna ^a   Vandenbosch, Guy A E ^a   Schreurs, Dominique M M P ^a  

^a Katholieke Universiteit Leuven   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA PERLIS   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Biomedical applications of electromagnetic radiation; biomedical telemetry; radar antenna

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; BIOMEDICAL TELEMETRY; BOW TIE; DUAL-BAND; FRAME TRANSMISSION; GROUND PLANES; SPEED DETECTION; TARGET LOCATION; TELEMETRY SYSTEMS; UNIDIRECTIONALITY;

ANTENNAS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; RADAR ANTENNAS; TELEMETERING EQUIPMENT;

TRACKING RADAR;

EID: 84873362400     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2013.2238501     Document Type: Article

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