Title :
The future of medical electronics
Author :
Vasanth, Karthik
Author_Institution :
Texas Instrum. Inc., Dallas, TX, USA
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;
Conference_Titel :
Bipolar/BiCMOS Circuits and Technology Meeting (BCTM), 2010 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Austin, TX
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8578-9
DOI :
10.1109/BIPOL.2010.5668064
