A wireless magnetoresistive sensing system for an intraoral tongue-computer interface

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 571-585

  Park, Hangue ^a   Kiani, Mehdi ^a   Lee, Hyung Min ^a   Kim, Jeonghee ^a   Block, Jacob ^a   Gosselin, Benoit ^b   Ghovanloo, Maysam ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Assistive technologies; Duty cycling; Industrial scientific medical (ISM) band; Intraoral Tongue Drive System (iTDS); Magnetoresistive sensors; System on a chip

Indexed keywords

ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY; DRIVE SYSTEMS; DUTY-CYCLING; INDUSTRIAL-SCIENTIFIC- MEDICAL (ISM) BAND; MAGNETO RESISTIVE SENSORS; SYSTEM-ON-A-CHIP;

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; BANDPASS FILTERS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DIGITAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; DIGITAL STORAGE; ELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; ENERGY MANAGEMENT; MAGNETIC SENSORS; PERSONAL COMPUTERS;

PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLERS;

ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER INTERFACE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION STUDY; HUMAN; MAGNETISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SELF HELP; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TELEMETRY; TONGUE; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MAGNETIC PHENOMENA; SELF-HELP DEVICES; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TELEMETRY; TONGUE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84872675146     PISSN: 19324545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBCAS.2012.2227962     Document Type: Article

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