How to pass information and deliver energy to a network of implantable devices within the human body

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 5286-5289

  Sun, Mingui ^a   Hackworth, Steven A ^a   Tang, Zhide ^a   Gilbert, Gary ^b   Cardin, Sylvain ^b   Sclabassi, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b U S ARMY MEDICAL RESEARCH AND MATERIEL COMMAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN ANATOMY; IMPLANTABLE DEVICES; INTRA-BODY COMMUNICATION DISTANCES; MINIATURE IMPLANTS;

DATA ACQUISITION; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); OPTIMIZATION;

DATA TRANSFER;

AMBULATORY MONITORING; ARTICLE; ELECTRODE; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; POWER SUPPLY; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES; TELEMETRY;

ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; ELECTRODES; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; TELEMETRY;

EID: 57649232729     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2007.4353534     Document Type: Conference Paper

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