Abstract
Intrabody Communication (IBC) still poses important technical issues regarding the measurement of pathloss through the human body. In the literature, a number of experimental setups using different measurement equipment and conditions have been proposed, possibly causing the discrepancy observed among results by diverse authors. In addition, the uncertainty caused by the human body represents a challenge in the measurement process, thus making it hard to distinguish the human effects from those related to the measurement conditions and equipment used. For this reason, an electric circuit phantom has been proposed in this work, with the aim of obtaining a prototype with which IBC designers can validate their experimental setups, thereby allowing the effects due to measurement equipment to be identified. This phantom is based on a simplified four-impedance circuit model which approximately emulates bioimpedance and pathloss for IBC galvanic coupling. Finally, the applicability of the phantom has been validated by conducting a set of measurements on the human arm.
The original version of this chapter was inadvertently published with an incorrect chapter pagination 461–465 and DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-32703-7_90. The page range and the DOI has been re-assigned. The correct page range is 467–471 and the DOI is 10.1007/978-3-319-32703-7_91. The erratum to this chapter is available at DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-32703-7_260
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Callejón, M.A., Reina-Tosina, J., Naranjo, D., Roa, L.M. (2016). Design and Validation of an Electric Circuit Phantom for Galvanic Intrabody Communication. In: Kyriacou, E., Christofides, S., Pattichis, C. (eds) XIV Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing 2016. IFMBE Proceedings, vol 57. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32703-7_91
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