Power-efficient impedance-modulation wireless data links for biomedical implants

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 301-315

  Mandal, Soumyajit ^a   Sarpeshkar, Rahul ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Impedance modulation; Implants; Load modulation; Low power; Near field; Telemetry; Wireless

Indexed keywords

DATA TRANSFER; DATA TRANSFER RATES; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTS; MODULATION; TELEMETERING EQUIPMENT; WATER WELL PUMPS;

IMPEDANCE MODULATION; IMPLANTS; LOAD MODULATION; LOW POWER; NEAR-FIELD; TELEMETRY; WIRELESS;

BIT ERROR RATE;

EID: 57049129846     PISSN: 19324545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBCAS.2008.2005295     Document Type: Article

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