On accuracy of simple FDTD models for the simulation of human body path loss

SAS 2011 - IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 18-23

  Makarov, Sergey N ^a   Khan, Umair I ^a   Islam, Md Monirul ^a   Ludwig, Reinhold ^a   Pahlavan, Kaveh ^a  

^a Worcester Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANSOFT HFSS; BODY MODELING; FDTD ANALYSIS; FDTD MODEL; FDTD SIMULATIONS; FEM MODELING; HUMAN BODIES; TIME DOMAIN;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; MATLAB; SENSORS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

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EID: 84884598410     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SAS.2011.5739771     Document Type: Conference Paper

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