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Existing research on human channel modeling of galvanic coupling intra-body communication (IBC) is primarily focused on the human body itself. Although galvanic coupling IBC is less disturbed by external influences during signal transmission, there are inevitable factors in real measurement scenarios such as the parasitic impedance of electrodes, impedance matching of the transceiver, etc. which might lead to deviations between the human model and the in vivo measurements. This paper proposes a field-circuit finite element method (FEM) model of galvanic coupling IBC in a real measurement environment to estimate the human channel gain. First an anisotropic concentric cylinder model of the electric field intra-body communication for human limbs was developed based on the galvanic method. Then the electric field model was combined with several impedance elements, which were equivalent in terms of parasitic impedance of the electrodes, input and output impedance of the transceiver, establishing a field-circuit FEM model. The results indicated that a circuit module equivalent to external factors can be added to the field-circuit model, which makes this model more complete, and the estimations based on the proposed field-circuit are in better agreement with the corresponding measurement results.
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SENSORS
ISSN: 1424-8220
Year: 2016
Issue: 4
Volume: 16
2 . 6 7 7
JCR@2016
3 . 4 0 0
JCR@2023
ESI Discipline: CHEMISTRY;
ESI HC Threshold:235
JCR Journal Grade:1
CAS Journal Grade:2
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WoS CC Cited Count: 23
SCOPUS Cited Count: 28
ESI Highly Cited Papers on the List: 0 Unfold All
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30 Days PV: 0
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