Title :
Skin impedance models for transdermal drug delivery
Author :
Pang, Grantham K H ; Qiao, Dapeng
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Abstract :
In this paper, a study based on the different models of the skin impedance is carried out. The purpose is to examine the drug delivery method through iontophoresis, which relies on active transportation of the charged medication agent within an electric field. It is a kind of transdermal drug delivery method, and hence the method has to handle the variability in skin characteristics of a patient. This paper carries out a simulation study based on three different skin impedance models.
Keywords :
bioelectric phenomena; drug delivery systems; medical signal processing; skin; active transportation; electric field; iontophoresis; medication agent; skin characteristics; skin impedance; transdermal drug delivery; Automation; Capacitance; Circuits; Drug delivery; Epidermis; Immune system; Mechatronics; Skin; Surface impedance; Thermal force; Target drug delivery; biomedical engineering; iontophoresis; skin impedance;
Conference_Titel :
Mechatronics and Automation, 2009. ICMA 2009. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Changchun
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2692-8
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2693-5
DOI :
10.1109/ICMA.2009.5246159
