Noninvasive Control of the Power Transferred to an Implanted Device by an Ultrasonic Transcutaneous Energy Transfer Link

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 995-1004

  Shmilovitz, Doron ^a   Ozeri, Shaul ^a   Wang, Chua Chin ^b   Spivak, Boaz ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Contactless power transfer; hysteresis control; implanted medical device; ultrasonic transcutaneous energy transfer; voltage regulation

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT; CAPACITORS; ENERGY TRANSFER; HYSTERESIS; INDUCTIVE POWER TRANSMISSION; TRANSDUCERS; VOLTAGE CONTROL; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

HYSTERESIS CONTROL; HYSTERETIC CONTROL; IMPLANTATION DEPTH; IMPLANTED MEDICAL DEVICES; NON-INVASIVE CONTROLS; STORAGE CAPACITOR; TRANSCUTANEOUS; VIBRATION FREQUENCY;

POWER CONTROL;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ENERGY TRANSFER; EXCITATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAGNETIC FIELD; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; RADIOFREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION; ULTRASONIC TRANSCUTANEOUS ENERGY TRANSFER; ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EQUIPMENT; POWER SUPPLY; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES; PROSTHESIS; TRANSDUCER;

ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 84905186863     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2013.2280460     Document Type: Article

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