Performance of a radio link between a base station and a medical implant utilising the MICS standard
(2004) Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2004 26. p.2113-2116- Abstract
- Modern medical implants are of increasing complexity and with that, the need for fast and flexible communication with them grows. A wireless system is preferable and an inductive link is the most commonly used. But it has the drawback of a very short range, essentially limited to having the external transceiver touching the patient. The Medical Implant Communication System, MICS, is a standard aimed at improving the communication distance. It operates at a higher frequency band between 402 MHz and 405 MHz. We have by simulations and measurements investigated the channel properties of this band and calculated the link performance for a typical implant application. The result is a link speed between a base station and a bedridden patient of... (More)
- Modern medical implants are of increasing complexity and with that, the need for fast and flexible communication with them grows. A wireless system is preferable and an inductive link is the most commonly used. But it has the drawback of a very short range, essentially limited to having the external transceiver touching the patient. The Medical Implant Communication System, MICS, is a standard aimed at improving the communication distance. It operates at a higher frequency band between 402 MHz and 405 MHz. We have by simulations and measurements investigated the channel properties of this band and calculated the link performance for a typical implant application. The result is a link speed between a base station and a bedridden patient of 600 kbit bits per second with a bit error rate of 2% in the downlink to the implant and 1 % in the uplink to the base station. Conclusions on the necessary complexity of the base station are also given (Less)
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- author
- Johansson, Anders J LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2004
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- 402 to 405 MHz, biomedical telemetry, wireless system, Medical Implant Communication System, radio link, medical implant
- host publication
- Conference Proceedings. 26th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
- volume
- 26
- pages
- 2113 - 2116
- publisher
- IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
- conference name
- Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2004
- conference location
- San Francisco, California, United States
- conference dates
- 2004-09-01 - 2004-09-05
- external identifiers
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- wos:000225461800546
- scopus:11144258847
- pmid:17272140
- ISBN
- 0-7803-8439-3
- DOI
- 10.1109/IEMBS.2004.1403620
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 744f5b77-505c-4161-959e-7e0844e14074 (old id 613628)
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