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Bioelectric Analyses of an Osseointegrated Intelligent Implant Design System for Amputees
Published on: July 15, 2009
Design of the next-generation medical implants with communication energy and ports
Mingui Sun1, Steven A Hackworth, Zhide Tang
1Laboratory for Computational Neuroscience, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA. mrsun@neuronet.pitt.edu
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
|March 23, 2007
Abstract:
In this work, we provide an effective solution to the communication and power supply problems in miniature medical devices implanted within the human body. The volume conduction property of the human tissue is utilized as a natural cable for the delivery of both information and energy. A practical design is presented consisting of a small, simple, and convenient external device called an energy pad.

