Design of a wideband power-efficient inductive wireless link for implantable biomedical devices using multiple carriers

2nd International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 533-537

  Atluri, Suresh ^a   Ghovanloo, Maysam ^a,b  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomedical implants; Coupling coefficient; Data rate; Efficiency; Frequency shift keying; Inductive link; Interference; Radio frequency; Telemetry; Wireless

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT; BIT ERROR RATE; DATA TRANSFER; EFFICIENCY; FREQUENCY SHIFT KEYING; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); RADIO; TELEMETERING;

BIOMEDICAL IMPLANTS; COUPLING COEFFICIENT; DATA RATE; INDUCTIVE LINK; INTERFERENCE; RADIO FREQUENCY;

MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 33744454391     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CNE.2005.1419677     Document Type: Conference Paper

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