DocumentCode
1648125
Title
The future of medical electronics
Author
Vasanth, Karthik
Author_Institution
Texas Instrum. Inc., Dallas, TX, USA
fYear
2010
Firstpage
184
Lastpage
187
Abstract
Medical electronics have a very important role to play in improving the quality of health care in the form of diagnosis and therapy of illness. In addition it has an equally important role in the prevention of sickness. The success of such devices depends on the ability to measure and interpret the wide variety of signals linked to the underlying physical condition. For example, in ultrasound systems, the electronics needs to be able to analyze signal strength varying over 100dB in magnitude. This paper will cover some of the range of process and design challenges to meet these requirements. Future trends and directions are also discussed.
Keywords
biomedical electronics; health care; patient diagnosis; patient treatment; health care; medical electronics; physical condition; sickness prevention; ultrasound systems; CMOS integrated circuits; Gain; Noise; Nonvolatile memory; Performance evaluation; Transducers; Ultrasonic imaging; RF circuits; Silicon bipolar/BiCMOS process technology; analog or digital circuits; implantable devices; ultrasound;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Bipolar/BiCMOS Circuits and Technology Meeting (BCTM), 2010 IEEE
Conference_Location
Austin, TX
ISSN
1088-9299
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-8578-9
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/BIPOL.2010.5668064
Filename
5668064
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