A wireless power transfer based implantable ECG monitoring device

Junho Kim; Hyeok Kim; Dongwook Kim; Hun Jun Park; Kiwon Ban; Seungyoung Ahn; Sung Min Park

doi:10.3390/en13040905

A wireless power transfer based implantable ECG monitoring device

Junho Kim
, Hyeok Kim
, Dongwook Kim
, Hun Jun Park
, Kiwon Ban
, Seungyoung Ahn
, Sung Min Park

Department of Internal Medicine

Pohang University of Science and Technology
The Catholic University of Korea
Catholic Univ. of Korea Coll. Med.
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
City University of Hong Kong

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Abstract

Implantable medical devices (IMDs) enable patients to monitor their health anytime and receive treatment anywhere. However, due to the limited capacity of a battery, their functionalities are restricted, and the devices may not achieve their intended potential fully. The most promising way to solve this limited capacity problem is wireless power transfer (WPT) technology. In this study, a WPT based implantable electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring device that continuously records ECG data has been proposed, and its effectiveness is verified through an animal experiment using a rat model. Our proposed device is designed to be of size 24 × 27 × 8 mm, and it is small enough to be implanted in the rat. The device transmits data continuously using a low power Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) communication technology. To charge the battery wirelessly, transmitting (Tx) and receiving (Rx) antennas were designed and fabricated. The animal experiment results clearly showed that our WPT system enables the device to monitor the ECG of a heart in various conditions continuously, while transmitting all ECG data in real-time.

Original language	English
Article number	en13040905
Journal	Energies
Volume	13
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/en13040905
State	Published - 2020

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ECG monitoring device
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