Wireless implantable sensing device for in-vivo monitoring of electrode-tissues contact variation

Author

Lesbros, Guillaume ; Sawan, Mohamad

Author_Institution

Polystim Neurotechnol. Lab., Montreal

fYear

2006

Firstpage

67

Lastpage

68

Abstract

This paper concerns the design of a biotelemetry device dedicated to monitor the complex impedance of the electrode-tissues contacts (ETC) on long term implantations. It consists of an implantable wireless device performing the proposed measurement technique, and an external controller supporting the bi-directional communications between a PC and the implant. It uses a digital sine waveform approach to stimulate the ETC while recording 256 samples of the restituted potential. Experimental validation confirms frequency and amplitude can be respectively set within the range of 4 Hz~210 kHz, and plusmn14muA~1.5mA.

Keywords

biological tissues; biomedical electrodes; biomedical telemetry; electric sensing devices; prosthetics; bi-directional communications; biotelemetry device; digital sine waveform; electrode-tissues contact variation; in-vivo monitoring; wireless implantable sensing device; Bidirectional control; Biomedical telemetry; Communication system control; Digital recording; Impedance; Implants; Measurement techniques; Monitoring; Performance evaluation; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Architecture for Machine Perception and Sensing, 2006. CAMP 2006. International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Montreal, Que.

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0685-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-0686-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CAMP.2007.4350354

Filename

4350354