Implantable wireless devices for the monitoring of intracranial pressure

Author

Meng, Xu ; Kawoos, Usmah ; Huang, Shi-Min ; Tofighi, Mohammad-Reza ; Rosen, Arye

Author_Institution

Sch. of Biomed. Eng., Drexel Univ., Philadelphia, PA, USA

fYear

2012

fDate

4-6 June 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

The use of intracranial pressure (ICP) monitoring is supported and recommended in the neurosurgical and neurological assessment. Acute and long-term ICP measurement is desirable for providing an insight into the mechanism of the head injury and aiding post neurological disorders treatment. Two different embedded wireless microwave devices for monitoring of ICP have been designed and investigated for research and clinical diagnoses. This paper presents a comparative study of these devices, and describes their main features and measurement procedures.

Keywords

biomedical equipment; biomedical measurement; brain; embedded systems; injuries; medical disorders; microwave devices; neurophysiology; patient monitoring; pressure measurement; prosthetics; surgery; acute intracranial pressure measurement; clinical diagnosis; embedded wireless microwave devices; head injury; implantable wireless devices; intracranial pressure monitoring; long-term intracranial pressure measurement; neurological assessment; neurological disorders treatment; neurosurgical assessment; research diagnosis; Batteries; Head; Implants; Iterative closest point algorithm; Monitoring; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Consumer Electronics (ISCE), 2012 IEEE 16th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Harrisburg, PA

ISSN

0747-668X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1354-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCE.2012.6241727

Filename

6241727