On-body characterization of textile antennas for biomedical health monitoring systems

BioWireleSS 2013 - Proceedings: 2013 IEEE Topical Conference on Biomedical Wireless Technologies, Networks, and Sensing Systems - 2013 IEEE Radio and Wireless Week, RWW 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 19-21

  Soh, P J ^a,b   Vandenbosch, G A E ^a   Schreurs, D M M P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA PERLIS   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

biomedical monitoring; Biomedical telemetry; body sensor networks; broadband antennas; fractal antennas; multifrequency antennas

Indexed keywords

BODY SENSOR NETWORKS; MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS; SENSORS; TEXTILES; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

BIOMEDICAL MONITORING; BIOMEDICAL TELEMETRY; BROAD-BAND ANTENNA; FRACTAL ANTENNA; MULTI-FREQUENCY ANTENNA;

WEARABLE ANTENNAS;

EID: 84887272658     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BioWireleSS.2013.6613661     Document Type: Conference Paper

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