Characteristics of electric field and radiation pattern on different locations of the human body for in-body wireless communication

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 61, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 5350-5354

  Lin, Ho Yu ^a   Takahashi, Masaharu ^a   Saito, Kazuyuki ^a   Ito, Koichi ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

FDTD method; In body wireless communication; Numerical human body

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD;

ANTENNA PERFORMANCE; COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTS; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN (FDTD) METHODS; HUMAN BODIES; IMPLANTABLE ANTENNAS; RADIATION PERFORMANCE; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84885645924     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2013.2272672     Document Type: Article

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