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Performance of a radio link between a base station and a medical implant utilising the MICS standard

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Summary, in English

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

Publishing year

2004

Language

English

Pages

2113-2116

Publication/Series

Conference Proceedings. 26th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society

Volume

26

Document type

Conference paper

Publisher

IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.

Topic

  • Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering

Keywords

  • 402 to 405 MHz
  • biomedical telemetry
  • wireless system
  • Medical Implant Communication System
  • radio link
  • medical implant

Conference name

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2004

Conference date

2004-09-01 - 2004-09-05

Conference place

San Francisco, California, United States

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 0-7803-8439-3