Miniaturized Wireless Sensing System for Real-Time Breath Activity Recording

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 178-184

  André, Nicolas ^a   Druart, Sylvain ^a   Gérard, Pierre ^a   Pampin, Remi ^a   Moreno Hagelsieb, Luis ^a   Kezai, Tahar ^a   Francis, Laurent A ^a   Flandre, Denis ^a   Raskin, Jean Pierre ^a  

^a Louvain School of Engineering   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Breath monitoring; interdigitated sensor; SAHS; temperature sensor; wireless set up

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008061014     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: 15581748     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2009.2035666     Document Type: Article

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