Compact Personal Distributed Wearable Exposimeter

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 4393-4401

  Vanveerdeghem, Peter ^a   Van Torre, Patrick ^a   Thielens, Arno ^a   Knockaert, Jos ^a   Joseph, Wout ^a   Rogier, Hendrik ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Dosimetry; Radio frequency exposure; Textile antennas; Wearable electronics

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; CALIBRATION; DOSIMETRY; FLASH MEMORY; MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS; RADIO WAVES; SLOT ANTENNAS; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS; TEXTILES; WEARABLE ANTENNAS; WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY;

CALIBRATED ANTENNA; HIGH RESOLUTION; RADIO FREQUENCY FIELDS; RADIO-FREQUENCY EXPOSURE; REALISTIC CONDITIONS; TEXTILE ANTENNAS; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS; WEARABLE ELECTRONICS;

WEARABLE SENSORS;

EID: 84933046233     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2015.2420583     Document Type: Article

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