In vitro and in vivo studies on wireless powering of medical sensors and implantable devices

Author

Zhang, Fei ; Liu, Xiaoyu ; Hackworth, Steven A. ; Sclabassi, Robert J. ; Sun, Mingui

Author_Institution

Depts. of Neurosurg., Univ. of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

fYear

2009

fDate

9-10 April 2009

Firstpage

84

Lastpage

87

Abstract

This paper investigates wireless electricity (witricity) and its application to medical sensors and implantable devices. Several coupling scenarios of resonators are analyzed theoretically. In vitro experiments are conducted in open air and through an agar phantom of the human head. An in vivo animal experiment is also carried out. Our studies indicate that witricity is a suitable tool for providing wireless power to a variety of medical sensors and implanted devices.

Keywords

biomedical equipment; inductive power transmission; power supplies to apparatus; prosthetics; sensors; human head agar phantom; implantable device wireless powering; in vivo animal experiment; medical sensor wireless powering; resonator coupling scenarios; wireless electricity; witricity; Batteries; Coils; Couplings; In vitro; In vivo; Magnetic resonance; Magnetic sensors; Medical diagnostic imaging; Power supplies; Wireless sensor networks; energy transfer; implantable device; magnetic resonance; medical device; mid-range; strong coupling; thin film cell; wireless electricity; wireless power transfer; witricity;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Life Science Systems and Applications Workshop, 2009. LiSSA 2009. IEEE/NIH

Conference_Location

Bethesda, MD

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4292-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4293-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LISSA.2009.4906715

Filename

4906715