Energy harvesting from the beating heart by a mass imbalance oscillation generator

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 131-141

  Zurbuchen, A ^a   Pfenniger, A ^a,d   Stahel, A ^d   Stoeck, C T ^c   Vandenberghe, S ^a   Koch, V M ^d   Vogel, Rolf ^a,b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b Solothurner Spitäler ^*  (Switzerland)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d BERN UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Automatic power generating system; Cardiac wall motion; MRI; Power supplies; Scavenging; Unbalance; Wrist watch

Indexed keywords

BEATING HEART; BIOSIGNALS; CARDIAC MOTION; CARDIAC WALL; ELECTRICAL ENERGY; ENERGY HARVESTING DEVICE; HARVESTING DEVICES; IN-VITRO; IN-VIVO; IN-VIVO EXPERIMENTS; LEFT VENTRICLES; LONG LIFETIME; MASS IMBALANCE; MEDICAL IMPLANTS; MOTION ANALYSIS; POWER SUPPLY; POWER-GENERATING SYSTEMS; SURGICAL INTERVENTIONS; UNBALANCE;

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; ENERGY HARVESTING; EXPERIMENTS; KINETICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PATIENT TREATMENT; SCAVENGING;

HEART;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOENERGY; FEMALE; HEART CONTRACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SHEEP; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BIOELECTRIC ENERGY SOURCES; FEMALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SHEEP;

EID: 84871632664     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: 15739686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10439-012-0623-3     Document Type: Article

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