Equivalent Circuit of Intrabody Communication Channels Inducing Conduction Currents Inside the Human Body

Abstract

The physical channels establishing intrabody communications were first treated as capacitive circuits by Zimmerman. In Zimmerman's model, the human body is approximated as a perfect conductor. The equivalent-circuit parameters of the perfect conductor models can be strictly obtained based on electrostatic analyses; however, the perfect conductor models cannot be applied if conduction currents inside the human body are not negligible. In the present paper, a theory of the equivalent circuit for lossy conductors is described, and the physical mechanism of the communication channels inducing conduction currents inside the human body is addressed.