Design of wireless links to implanted brain-machine interface microelectronic systems

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 11, Issue , 2012, Pages 1663-1666

  Bjorninen, Toni ^a   Muller, Rikky ^b   Ledochowitsch, Peter ^b   Sydanheimo, Lauri ^a   Ukkonen, Leena ^a   Maharbiz, Michel M ^b   Rabaey, Jan M ^b  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrocorticography (ECoG); implantable antenna; on body antenna; thin conductor; wireless power delivery

Indexed keywords

ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; IMPLANTABLE ANTENNAS; ON-BODY; THIN CONDUCTORS; WIRELESS POWER DELIVERY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DESIGN; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION; MICROELECTRONICS; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 84873345543     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2013.2239252     Document Type: Article

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