A wireless neurosensing system for remote monitoring of brain signals

Author

Kiourti, Asimina ; Zheyu Wang ; Lee, Chi-Kwan ; Scwerdt, H. ; Junseok Chae ; Volakis, J.L.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH, USA

fYear

2014

fDate

6-11 April 2014

Firstpage

3452

Lastpage

3453

Abstract

We propose a wireless, fully-passive neurosensing system for remote monitoring of brain signals. The system comprises a neurosensor, an implanted antenna matched to the sensor, an external RF interrogator antenna, and integrated RF circuits. To enable continuous and reliable sensor monitoring using a nearby mobile device (cell phone, tablet, etc), the neurosensing system is further interfaced with a wearable body area network (BAN). Design and link budget issues are discussed, highlighting the challenges of detecting actual electrocorticographic (ECoG) signals of tens of μV_pp.

Keywords

antennas; bioelectric phenomena; biomedical telemetry; body area networks; brain; neurophysiology; patient monitoring; remote sensing; BAN; ECoG; brain signals; electrocorticography; external RF interrogator antenna; implanted antenna; integrated RF circuits; neurosensor; remote monitoring; wearable body area network; wireless neurosensing system; Antennas; Biomedical monitoring; Monitoring; Radio frequency; Signal to noise ratio; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks; body area network; neural telemetry; neurosensing; signal to noise ratio;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2014 8th European Conference on

Conference_Location

The Hague

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EuCAP.2014.6902571

Filename

6902571