A two-hop wireless power transfer system with an efficiency-enhanced power receiver for motion-free capsule endoscopy inspection

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 59, Issue 12 PART2, 2012, Pages 3247-3254

  Sun, Tianjia ^a   Xie, Xiang ^a   Li, Guolin ^a   Gu, Yingke ^a   Deng, Yangdong ^a   Wang, Zhihua ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Capsule endoscope; switch mode rectifiers; wireless power transfer (WPT)

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE POWER; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPES; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; CIRCUIT TECHNIQUES; COMBINING EFFICIENCY; LOOSE COUPLINGS; PEAK POWER; POWER CABLES; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; POWER EFFICIENCY; POWER RECEIVERS; POWER RELAYS; POWER SOURCES; RECTIFYING EFFICIENCY; STRONG COUPLING; TRANSFER MECHANISMS; WIRELESS POWER; WIRELESS POWER TRANSFER;

CABLES; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; EFFICIENCY; ENDOSCOPY; FLOORS;

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS;

ANTENNA; ARTICLE; BUILDING; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIRECT CURRENT; ENERGY CONVERSION; HUMAN; PATIENT; POWER SUPPLY; PREDICTION; PRODUCTIVITY; RELIABILITY;

CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; ELECTRONICS, MEDICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84868089353     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2012.2206809     Document Type: Article

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