Intrabody communication using contact electrodes in low-frequency bands

Healthcare Sensor Networks: Challenges Toward Practical Implementation

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 51-74

  Sasaki, Ken ^a   Koshiji, Fukuro ^b   Takenaka, Shudo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KOKUSHIKAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

CONTACT ELECTRODES; INTRA-BODY COMMUNICATIONS; LOW FREQUENCY BAND;

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

EID: 85051449851     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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