Energy harvesting from the cardiovascular system, or how to get a little help from yourself

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2248-2263

  Pfenniger, Alois ^a,b,c   Jonsson, Magnus ^a   Zurbuchen, Adrian ^a,c   Koch, Volker M ^b   Vogel, Rolf ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b BERN UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d Hospital Solothurn   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Artery; Blood flow; Blood pressure; Electromagnetic; Electrostatic; Heart motion; Piezoelectric

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; BLOOD PRESSURE; ELECTROSTATICS; HEMODYNAMICS; MOTIVATION; PIEZOELECTRICITY;

ARTERY; BLOOD FLOW; ELECTROMAGNETIC; HEART MOTION; PIEZOELECTRIC;

ENERGY HARVESTING;

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY; ARTERY COMPLIANCE; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ENERGY; ENERGY CONVERSION; ENERGY HARVESTING; ENERGY RESOURCE; HEART MOVEMENT; HEART VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HEART VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HUMAN; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; PACEMAKER; PIEZOELECTRICITY; PULSE GENERATOR; REVIEW; SINUS NODE; STATIC ELECTRICITY; VIBRATION;

BIOELECTRIC ENERGY SOURCES; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS;

EID: 84896691192     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: 15739686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10439-013-0887-2     Document Type: Review

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