Title :
A telemetry operated vestibular prosthesis
Author :
Cirmirakis, Dominik ; Dai Jiang ; Demosthenous, Andreas ; Donaldson, Nick ; Perkins, Tom
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Univ. Coll. London, London, UK
Abstract :
A telemetry operated vestibular prosthesis has been developed. The telemetry is designed to provide power to the implantable circuits and maintain bi-directional communication in a packet-based manner. It uses only one pair of inductively coupled coils. Preliminary measurements are shown, including in-vitro operation of the stimulation and recording functions. For a 10 MHz carrier frequency and a 7 mm distance between the coils, the downlink and uplink data streams operate at 400 kbps and 600 kbps, respectively.
Keywords :
biomedical electronics; biomedical telemetry; coils; data communication; inductive power transmission; inductors; mechanoception; packet radio networks; prosthetics; bit rate 400 kbit/s; bit rate 600 kbit/s; distance 7 mm; downlink data stream; frequency 10 MHz; implantable circuits; in vitro operation; inductively coupled coils; packet based bidirectional communication; recording function; stimulation function; telemetry operated vestibular prosthesis; uplink data stream; Application specific integrated circuits; Coils; Downlink; Implants; Irrigation; Prosthetics; Telemetry;
Conference_Titel :
Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS), 2012 19th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Seville
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1261-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1259-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICECS.2012.6463681
