A survey on intrabody communications for body area network applications

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 60, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2067-2079

  Seyedi, Mirhojjat ^a   Kibret, Behailu ^a   Lai, Daniel T H ^a   Faulkner, Michael ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Capacitive coupling; electrical properties; galvanic coupling; human body tissues; intrabody communication (IBC); modeling; radio frequency (RF); transceiver design; wireless communication

Indexed keywords

CAPACITIVE COUPLINGS; GALVANIC COUPLING; HUMAN BODY TISSUES; INTRABODY COMMUNICATION (IBC); RADIO FREQUENCIES; TRANSCEIVER DESIGN; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

COMMUNICATION; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MODELS; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; RADIO WAVES; SURVEYS; TECHNOLOGY; TRANSCEIVERS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ANTENNAS;

GLUCOSE;

ART; ARTICLE; BODY AREA NETWORK; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRABODY COMMUNICATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; SENSOR; THEORETICAL MODEL; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION;

COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL; TELEMEDICINE; WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84880899444     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2013.2254714     Document Type: Article

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