A readout circuit for an intra-ocular pressure sensor

Sensors and Actuators, A: Physical

Volumn 110, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 432-438

  Coosemans, Johan ^a   Catrysse, Michael ^a   Puers, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Intra ocular pressure; Micro coils; Passive telemetry; Readout circuit

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC COILS; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); PATIENT MONITORING; PRESSURE TRANSDUCERS; READOUT SYSTEMS; TELEMETERING; VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS;

INTRA-OCULAR PRESSURE; MICRO COILS; PASSIVE TELEMETRY; READOUT CIRCUITS;

SENSORS;

EID: 1642566500     PISSN: 09244247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sna.2003.09.015     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (16)

1. T. Togawa, T. Tamura, P.A. Oberg, T. Togowa, Biomedical Transducers and Instruments, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1997, Chapter 2, pp. 62-65.
2. K. Van Schuylenbergh, E. Peeters, R. Puers, W. Sansen, A. Neetens, An implantable telemetric tonometer for direct intraocular pressure measurements, in: Proceedings of the first European Conference on Biomedical Engineering, Nice, France, 17-20 February 1991.
3. Stangel K., Kolnsberg S., Hammerschmidt D., Hosticka B.J., Trieu H.K., Mokwa W. A programmable intraocular CMOS pressure sensor system implant. IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits. SSC-36:2001;306-1100.
4. Collins C.C. Miniature pressure transensor for implanting in the eye. IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng. BME-14:1967;74-83.
5. Backlund Y., Rosengren L., Hok B., Svedbergh B. Passive silicon transensor intended for biomedical, remote pressure monitoring. Sens. Actuators A. 21:1990;58-61.
6. Akar O., Akin T., Najafi K. A wireless batch sealed absolute capacitive pressure sensor. Sens. Actuators A. 95:2001;29-38.
7. Park E., Yoon J., Yoon E. Hermetically sealed inductor-capacitor (LC) resonator for remote pressure monitoring. Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 37:1998;7124-7128.
8. K. Van Schuylenbergh, R. Puers, Passive telemetry by harmonics detection, in: Proceedings of the 18th Annual International Conference on IEEE-EMBS, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1996, CD-ROM paper 1.7.2-5.
9. K. Van Schuylenbergh, Optimisation of inductive powering of small biotelemetry implants, PhD dissertation, 1998.
10. Puers R., Vandevoorde G., De Bruyker D. Electrodeposited copper inductors for intraocular pressure telemetry. J. Micromech. Microeng. 10:2000;124-129.
11. Zierhofer C.M., Hochmair E.S. Geometric approach for coupling enhancement of magnetically coupled coils. IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng. BME-43:1996;708-714.
12. Soma M., Galbraith D.C., White R.L. Radio-frequency coils in implantable devices: misalignment analysis and design procedure. IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng. BME-34:1987;276-282.
13. Kamon M., Tsuk M.J., White J. FASTHENRY: A multipole-accelerated 3-D inductance extraction program. IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory Tech. MTT-42:1994;1750-1758.
14. Puers B., Peeters E., Van Den Bossche A., Sansen W. A capacitive pressure sensor with low impedance output and active suppression of parasitic effects. Sens. Actuators. A21-A23:1990;104-108.
15. B. Razavi, Design of Analog CMOS Integrated Circuits, McGraw-Hill, New York, 2000, pp. 505-530.
16. P. Kinget, Integrated GHz voltage controlled oscillators, in: W. Sansen, J. Huijsing, R. van de Plassche (Eds.), Analog Circuit Design: (X)DSL and Other Communication Systems, RF MOST Models, Integrated Filters and Oscillators, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 1999.