Series in Microelectronics
edited by
Wolfgang Fichtner
Qiuting Huang
Heinz Jäckel
Gerhard Tröster
Bernd Witzigmann
Marc Simon Wegmüller,
Intra-Body Communication for
Biomedical Sensor Networks.
2007, 180 pages. € 64,00. ISBN 3-86628-162-5
The topic of this dissertation is the
investigation and development of a novel intra-body communication technology
using the human body as transmission medium for data communication. The human
body is characterized as a transmission medium for electrical currents by means
of the dielectric properties and the developed electrical models of human
tissue. Numerical finite-element simulations are compared to in vivo
measurements. The limits of the novel data communication are explored and
implementations for on-body and implanted applications are presented. Data
transfers of up to 64 kbit/s with BPSK modulation have been achieved through
thehuman body.
About the Author:
Marc Simon Wegmüller was born in
Bern, Switzerland, in 1977. He received the Diploma degree from the Swiss
Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland, in 2002.
After working in the field of vital monitoring systems and ASIC integration at
Miromico AG, he joined the Integrated Systems Laboratory (IIS) as a research
and teaching assistant in 2003. During his doctoral studies he was in
collaboration with the Foundation for Research on Information Technologies in
Society (IT'IS), Zurich. His research interests include the design of VLSI
circuits & systems and digital signal processing for medical
communications.
Keywords: Intra-body communication (IBC), biomedical sensor network, galvanic
coupling, body channel model, FE simulation, in-vivo, impedance measurement,
clinical trial, ICW-ECW-TBW distribution, SPIHT
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