Modeling for intra-body communication with bone effect

Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Engineering the Future of Biomedicine, EMBC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 693-696

  Pun, S H ^a,b   Gao, Y M ^b,c   Mak, P U ^a,b   Du, M ^b,c   Vai, M I ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACAU   (Macao)

^b Key Laboratory of Medical Instrumentation and Pharmaceutical Technology   (China)

^c FUZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Galvanic coupling type technique; Intra body communication; Maxwell equations; Quasi static approximation

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY;

COMMUNICATION METHODOLOGY; COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUES; COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; ELECTROMAGNETIC THEORIES; GALVANIC COUPLING; INTRA-BODY COMMUNICATIONS; NEW MATHEMATICAL MODEL; QUASISTATIC APPROXIMATIONS;

TISSUE;

EID: 84947899682     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5332703     Document Type: Conference Paper

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