Wearable wireless health monitoring: Current developments, challenges, and future trends

IEEE Microwave Magazine

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 55-70

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

^a UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA PERLIS   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; HEALTH; MONITORING; WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY;

COMBINED INFORMATIONS; COMMUNICATION FUNCTIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC SAFETY; NON-INVASIVE DIAGNOSIS; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE; WEARABLE HEALTH-MONITORING SYSTEMS; WIRELESS HEALTH MONITORING; WIRELESS HEALTH MONITORING SYSTEMS;

WEARABLE SENSORS;

EID: 84926655865     PISSN: 15273342     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MMM.2015.2394021     Document Type: Article

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