Feasibility of using the automatic generating system for quartz watches as a leadless pacemaker power source

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 377-380

  Goto, Hiroyuki ^a,c   Sugiura, T ^a   Harada, Y ^b   Kazui, T ^b  

^a SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c Technical School   (Japan)

Author keywords

Accelerafed motion; Automatic power generating system; Button type pacemaker; Capacitor; Charging characteristic; Discharging characteristic; Energy; Kinetic energy; Leadless pacemaker; Mechano electric energy conversion system

Indexed keywords

CAPACITORS; CHARGING (BATTERIES); ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; KINETIC ENERGY; PACEMAKERS;

AUTOMATIC POWER-GENERATING SYSTEM (AGS); MECHANO-ELECTRIC ENERGY CONVERSION SYSTEM;

ELECTRONIC MEDICAL EQUIPMENT;

SILICON DIOXIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; ELECTRICITY; ENERGY RESOURCE; NONHUMAN; PULSE GENERATOR;

EID: 0032993495     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02513315     Document Type: Article

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