Towards Batteryless Cardiac Implantable Electronic Devices - The Swiss Way

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 78-86

  Zurbuchen, Adrian ^a   Haeberlin, Andreas ^a   Pfenniger, Alois ^b   Bereuter, Lukas ^a   Schaerer, Jakob ^a   Jutzi, Frank ^c   Huber, Christoph ^a   Fuhrer, Juerg ^a   Vogel, Rolf ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b Biolab Technology AG   (Switzerland)

^c Frank Jutzi   (Switzerland)

^d Burgerspital Solothurn   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cardiology; energy harvesting; implantable biomedical devices; optimization; pacemakers

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT; CARDIOLOGY; CLOCKS; ELECTRIC BATTERIES; ENERGY HARVESTING; HEART; KINETIC ENERGY; KINETICS; OPTIMIZATION; PACEMAKERS;

ACTIVE IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICES; ALTERNATIVE ENERGY SOURCE; BATTERY REPLACEMENTS; CONTINUOUS ENERGY; ENERGY HARVESTING DEVICE; IMPLANTABLE BIOMEDICAL DEVICES; IMPLANTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICES; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION;

ELECTRON DEVICES;

ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; BIOENERGY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEART; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BIOELECTRIC ENERGY SOURCES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEART; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS;

EID: 85027437981     PISSN: 19324545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBCAS.2016.2580658     Document Type: Article

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